Clinical characteristics of children presenting with history of sexual abuse to a tertiary care centre in India

To study the clinical features of children with history of sexual abuse. A chart review of 40 children (<16 years) with history of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) evaluated at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NIMHANS during a three year period. 52.5% (N = 21) of the children came from broken families. The most common form of abuse was contact penetrative (67.5%) followed by contact non-penetrative abuse (30%). Seventy-Five percent...