%0 Journal Article %T Factores de riesgo asociados al maltrato infantil intrafamiliar en alumnos del Seminternado £¿Roberto Rodr¨ªguezSarmiento£¿ %A Veloso Mari£¿o %A B¨¢rbara Mar¨ªa %A Rodr¨ªguez Roca %A Vilma %A Medina Garc¨ªa %A Carmen %J MEDISAN %D 2009 %I Centro Provincial de Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X a case-control study was carried out in 50 children that suffered any of the categories of child abuse made by their parents or caretakers (cases), and 100 children selected by means of a simple random sampling (control) belonging to the "roberto rodr¨ªguez sarmiento" day boarding school from the "jos¨¦ mart¨ª" health area in santiago de cuba, from january to december, 2007, to identify those factors related to the occurrence of domestic violence in ages between 8 and 11 years. odds ratio and interval of confidence were used as statistical techniques. the most frequent modalities of child abuse were physical and psychological violence in children with helping factors such as a deficiency in academic performance and hiperactiviy along with low family income and divorce. the mother was the main person that mistreated her children. %K child abuse %K domestic violence %K divorce %K attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1029-30192009000500007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en