Reasonable suspicion in reporting child maltreatment: a survey among German healthcare professionals

Table 1 Sample characteristics

		Medicine				Psychological psychotherapists			Chi²/p-value
		Pediatricians	Pediatric surgeons	Child and adolescent psychiatrists	Medicine total	Child and adolescent psychotherapists	Adult psychotherapists	Psychological psychotherapists total
Participants	n	1581	58	203	1842	397	248	643
Gender^a	Female (%)	68	43	61	66	81	80	81	68.96/< 0.001
Age	< 41 (%)	42	21	30	40	34	34	34
	41–60 (%)	47	60	61	49	57	47	53
	> 60 (%)	11	19	9	11	10	19	13	44.99/< 0.001
Place of Work	> 20.000 Inhabitants (%)	82	98	82	82	68	71	69	57.20/< 0.001
Part of an interdisciplinary child protection team	Member (%)	13	60	16	15	6	7	6	146.77/< 0.001
Ever had training in child protection	(%)	29	59	29	30	20	22	21	43.27/< 0.001
At least 1 child protection case during the case 12 months (%)	(%)	80	95	91	81	74	45	63	184.27/< 0.001

^aThe 11 respondents who did not classify themselves as male or female are not considered as a separate group in the statistical models

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