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Article: CHILD MALTREATMENT VICTIMS LOSE TWO YEARS OF QUALITY OF LIFE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 28, 2008
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The University of Georgia issued the following news release:
Child maltreatment is associated with reductions in quality of life even decades later, according to a new University of Georgia study that finds that-on average-victims lose at least two years of quality of life.
UGA College of Public Health associate professor Phaedra Corso and her colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed surveys of more than 6,000 people to assess the deficits in quality of life that victims suffer. Their results appear in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
"We found, with rigorous statistical methods, that there are significant differences in health-related ...