Child discipline: what mothers in Qatar “believe” and what they do?

Objective: To compare mothers’ views of effective child discipline with the methods they report using with their own children Methods: We conducted a national cross-sectional household survey of 1018 Qatari mothers who completed a face-to-face interview employing the ISPCAN ( International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) Child Abuse Screening Tools-Parents (ICAST-P) survey. In combination with structured questions on their use of …