Seasonal variation of sexual abuse in Santiago de Chile

Psychopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 69-74

  Téllez, Carlos ^a   Galleguillos, Tamara ^b   Aliaga, Alvaro ^b   Silva, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chile; Seasonality; Sexual abuse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; REGISTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL ABUSE; SPRING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERIODICITY; RAPE; REGISTRIES; SEASONS; SEX OFFENSES; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 32044472248     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090595     Document Type: Article

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