Investigation Of The Current Situation And Family-related Factors Of Adolescents Neglect

Objective: To explore the relationship between the current situation and Family-relatedfactors such as parental rearing behaviors, type of family, family income andadolescents neglect from Jiaxing and Wuhu,China. To find out the risk factors ofadolescent neglected, so as to provide the basis for lessening the prevalence ofadolescents neglect.Methods: The survey was conducted by convenient cluster sampling among studentsfrom four middle schools in Jiaxing and three middle schools in Wuhu. Theinvestigation including: general information of the students and their family background,parental rearing behaviors, the current situation of neglect.Results: Totalof6347junior or senior students were recruited in our study,2347students ever suffered neglect. The rate and score of neglect were36.2%and50.41±9.70,respectively. the neglect rate of male and female were45.1%and27.5%,respectively. neglect score of male and female were51.77±9.95and49.07±9.26,respectively, and statistically significant difference was found between male andfemale(P＜0.05). Neglect rate of students from Jiaxing and Wuhu were36.0%and36.3%.Neglect score of students from Jiaxing and Wuhu were49.80±10.21and50.80±9.33,respectively..The difference in neglect rate and acore between studentsfrom Jiaxing and Wuhu were statistical significant (P＜0.05). Grade one students had26.4%of the lowest neglect rate and48.03±9.78of neglect score. The senior grade threehad the highest neglect rate with46.3%. The senior grade two had the highest neglectscore with51.89±8.98. Neglect rate of students from only child family and multi child family were35.1%and37.4%,respectively, and correspording neglect score were49.65±9.93and51.28±9.36, respectively.students from multi child family have higherneglect score than that of students from only child fanlily. There were significantdifferences in neglect rate and score among students with different character(P＜0.05).The neglect rate and score of introverted students were47.9%and53.22±11.24,respectively. The neglect rate and score of students with poor performancewere52.0%and53.54±10.86,respectively. There were significant differences in neglectrate and degree among students with different performance level (P＜0.05). Thedifference were statistical significant in neglect rate and score among students fromdifferent parents’ educational background, parents’ careers, family types and familyincome(P＜0.05). Social neglect rate had the highest neglect rate with18.1%. Medicalneglect rate had the lowest neglect rate with3.2%and highest neglect degree with56.39±17.85. Security neglect rate had the lowest neglect with42.86±10.80. Freeneglected group had higher grade in father’s emotional warmth and mother’s emotionalwarmth.than that of neglected group. Free neglected group had lower grade in father’sstrict-punishment, father’s over-involvement, father’s favoring, father’s rejection,father’s overprotection, mother’s overprotection, mother’s rejection, mother’sstrict-punishment, mother’s favoring than that of neglected group (P＜0.05).Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that female, mother’s educationalbackground, good performance level were the protective factors. Older and badrelationship with parents were the risk factors. Multiple linear regression analysisshowed that the score of the adolescents neglect were associated with father’s emotionalwarmth, mother’s rejection, grade, mother’s emotional warmth, father’sstrict-punishment, sex, mother’s overprotection, mother’s educational background,father’s favoring, performance level, mother’s strict-punishment, father’s rejection,family income. Conclusion: Adolescents neglect appears prevalent in our study. The relateddepartments should take effective intervention measures such as health education,establishment of the related association, enactment of the related laws foradolescents,so as to reduce the incidences of adolescents neglect.