Open AccessMUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY SYNDROME
Author(s) -
Ayşe Akpınar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
health sciences quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2791-6022
DOI - 10.26900/jsp.5.5.10
Subject(s) - munchausen syndrome , proxy (statistics) , child abuse , psychiatry , psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , clinical psychology , medical emergency , computer science , machine learning
In this study, the main aim is to shed light onto the Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome news case articles from Turkey and the USA as well as to increase awareness related to the topic. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a form of child abuse and as the perpetrator of the abuse mostly a parent of the victim, it is not easy to prove the abuse by the medical staff. Most of the time, the perpetrator is ‘mother’ of the child, who fabricates a story about the child’s sickness and seeks for medical attention for the child.