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Mortality among elder abuse victims in rural Malaysia
— a two-year population-based descriptive study | | Author(s) | Raudah Mohn Yunus, Noran Naqiah, Wan Yuen Choo |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, vol 29, no 1, January-February 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-February 2017 |
| Pages | pp 59-71 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Elder abuse ; Rural areas ; Cross sectional surveys ; Malaysia. |
| Annotation | Mortality among reported elder abuse experiences in rural Malaysia is examined in this population-based cohort study, using a multistage cluster sampling method. Older adults in Kuala Pilah (n = 1,927) were interviewed between November 2013 and May 2014. Mortality was traced after 2 years using the National Registration Department database. Overall, 139 (7.2%) respondents had died, of whom 15 were abuse victims. Mortality was highest with financial abuse (13%), followed by psychological abuse (10.8%). There was a dose-response relationship between mortality and clustering of abuse: 7%, 7.7%, and 14.0% for no abuse, one type, and two types or more, respectively. Among abuse victims, 40% of deaths had ill-defined causes, 33% were respiratory-related, and 27% had cardiovascular and metabolic origin. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170224220 A |
| Classmark | S5: QNT: RL: 3KB: 7XA |
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