Survey on the child neglect among children aged 3~6 in Nanning City

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-3806.2014.12.05

Abstract：Objective To investigate the status and the influential factors of child neglect among children aged 3~6 years in Nanning , and to provide evidence for the intervention strategy .Methods Survey was performed in the 1 042 children′s parents, who were recruited from 10 kindergartens using stratified cluster sampling technolo-gy, by questionnaires .Results The prevalence rate of children′s neglect was 6.3%and the children′s neglect score was (41.4 ±6.9) in urban children in Nanning.The prevalence rate and score of children′s neglect were varied with age(P<0.05), rather than gender(P>0.05).The main influencing factors of prevalence rate of children′s neglect were children′s age, mother′s education level, type of family, rank of child in family, with or without genetic disease and parental income reduced or not .The influencing factors of neglect score were mother′s education , children′s age, with or without genetic disease , type of family, housing area and parental income reduced or not .Conclusion Prevalence rate of child neglect is low ,but the strength of child neglect is relative high among urban children in Nan -ning.Mother′s education, children′s age, type of family, with or without genetic disease and parental income re -duced or not are closely related to child neglect .