Factors associated with child abuse in children and adolescents in a Peruvian public hospital

The study's objective was to determine the factors associated with the type of child and adolescent abuse of the MAMIS program, Hipólito Unanue hospital, Tacna-Peru region, 2019-2021. It had a quantitative, retrospective, cross-sectional, correlational approach in which 174 child abuse cases in children and adolescents were examined. It was found that the predominant personal factors were located in the ages of 12-17 years (57.4%), secondary level (51.15%), female sex (56.9%), and do not consume alcohol and/or drugs (88.5%). The family factors that stood out were the type of single parenteral family (48.28%), the age of both parents was 30-59 years (58.5%), the divorced, marital status (37.3%), secondary level (68.9%), the occupation of the independent parents (64.9%), there is no history of the parents having suffered violence (91.3%), there are no problems of addiction or alcohol consumption and/or drugs (95.40%), and at the same time there are no psychiatric disorders (95.4%). The types of child abuse that prevails is the psychological type (93.68%), followed by the type of neglect or abandonment (38.51%), the physical type (37.93%), and sexual abuse (27.0%). It is concluded that there is a significant relationship, with a confidence level of 95%, between personal factors such as the age of the minor with psychological abuse and sexual abuse<strong>; </strong>the sex of the minor with physical abuse and sexual abuse; the consumption of alcohol and/or drugs with the physical abuse of children and adolescents.