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Child Abuse, Psychiatric Disorder, and Running Away in a Community Sample of Women

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Studies involving clinical samples of adolescents indicate that running away is a common problem associated with substantial emotional impairment, yet little information is available from community-based samples. This study aimed to investigate runaway behaviour in female adolescents with and without a history of maltreatment in childhood. METHOD: We analyzed data from a province-wide community survey conducted in Ontario (n = 3760 …

Authors

Andres-Lemay VJ; Jamieson E; MacMillan HL

Journal

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 684–689

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

October 2005

DOI

10.1177/070674370505001107

ISSN

0706-7437