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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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