Prevalence of Parent Abuse in High School Boy Students during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Abbaspour, Zabihollah; Karimi, Samaneh; Sodani, Mansoor

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Volume 31, Issue 6 (2-2024)

Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences 2024, 31(6): 115-126

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Prevalence of Parent Abuse in High School Boy Students during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Zabihollah Abbaspour ^*

¹, Samaneh Karimi²

, Mansoor Sodani²

1- Dept of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran , z.abbaspour@scu.ac.ir
2- Dept of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

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Introduction: Domestic violence occurs in different ways in families. Parent abuse is a type of psychological, physical, or financial violence practiced by children against their parents. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of parent abuse in high school boy students during the coronavirus pandemic.
Material & Methods: The research method was descriptive-cross-sectional. The statistical population was all mothers of high school boy students in Khuzestan, Iran, in the academic year 2020-2021, of which 676 were selected by multistage cluster sampling. In this study, the Parent Abuse Scale (boy version) and demographic inventory were used. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, and percentage) and t-test using SPSS software (version 22).
Results: The findings of this study showed that the prevalence of physical abuse is 6.2%, emotional abuse 5%, financial abuse 11.4% and parental abuse in Corona epidemics is 4.1%. In addition, the findings of this study compared to the studies before the Corona outbreak showed that the prevalence of parental abuse of high school boy students in Khuzestan province was lower in the context of the coronavirus epidemic.
Discussion & Conclusion: Despite the fact that the number of parental abuses in Iranian society is significant, the rate of parental abuse in high school boy students during the Coronavirus in Khuzestan showed no increase. It is suggested to investigate strategies that have created and maintained positive interactions in the family.

Keywords: Coronavirus, Parent abuse, Prevalence

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: pathology
Received: 2023/10/4 | Accepted: 2023/11/11 | Published: 2024/02/4

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