Caitlin E. Crumm, Emily C. B. Brown, Neil G. Uspal, Derya Caglar, Amelie von Saint Andre- von Arnim, Dwight Barry, Emily A. Hartford
{"title":"A Study of Skeletal Survey Disparity in Pediatric Head Injury in the Emergency Department","authors":"Caitlin E. Crumm, Emily C. B. Brown, Neil G. Uspal, Derya Caglar, Amelie von Saint Andre- von Arnim, Dwight Barry, Emily A. Hartford","doi":"10.1177/10775595241282321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595241282321","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to evaluate disparities in skeletal survey (SS) use for pediatric. head injury patients in the emergency department (ED). This was a multi-site retrospective. cohort study of children <24 months with concern for head injury and injury on head CT from. 7/1/12 – 1/1/22. We determined adjusted associations between SS completion and race, ethnicity, language for care, insurance type, and income, with sub-analysis of children <6 months and with complex injury. We evaluated occult fracture prevalence. Two-hundred seventy children met criteria and 88 had SS. No statistical association was found between skeletal survey completion and race or ethnicity, language for care, private insurance, median census tract income, or in sub-analyses. Two of 88 (2.3%) patients had occult fracture; both had risk factors for NAT. In conclusion, no statistical association was found between SS completion and demographics. Occult fracture was uncommon. SS use can likely be decreased in lower risk patients.","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142253901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Richness of Reports Provided by Children in Israel: Examination of the Impact of Social Affiliations.","authors":"Hanin Mordi,Carmit Katz","doi":"10.1177/10775595241273969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595241273969","url":null,"abstract":"Forensic interviews following child sexual abuse (CSA) are of central importance to the children, their families and all those involved. Moreover, the legal system expects rich, forensically relevant reports from the children. The current study focuses on the impact of children's social affiliation on the richness of their reports, and how question types contribute to rich reports. The sample included 314 forensic interviews conducted in Israel between 2015 and 2018. The findings revealed a relationship between child characteristics (gender), abuse characteristics (perpetrator identity, abuse type, abuse frequency) and social affiliation with report richness. Furthermore, question types (free recall prompts, summaries, directive, option-posing, suggestive) moderated the relationship between the child's characteristics, abuse characteristics, and social affiliation with report richness, when these effects were not equal. The findings emphasized that contextual observation of sexually abused children may promote better services for them and, in addition, stressed the importance of advancing future training and practical guidelines for practitioners.","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":"5 1","pages":"10775595241273969"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Early Trauma to Cardiovascular Risk Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults.","authors":"Vanessa L Parker, Anna La Manna","doi":"10.1177/10775595241277122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595241277122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to investigate the connection between childhood abuse history and cardiovascular health indicators among a nationally representative sample of young adults aged 24-32. Using data from waves three and four of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (<i>n</i> = 4, 164) multivariate logistic regression was employed to investigate childhood trauma (i.e., childhood physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect) as predictors for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity. Results showed that adults who reported history of sexual abuse were 4.3 times more likely to report diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and those who reported childhood physical abuse at wave three had 1.4 times the odds of reporting high cholesterol diagnosis. Although trauma history is often calculated as a composite, some forms of childhood abuse may have greater impacts on cardiovascular risk than others.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"10775595241277122"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142047310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for Papers: Special Issue: <i>Ten Years Later: An Updated Critical Look at Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Among Agencies and Systems Serving Youth and Their Families</i>.","authors":"Jason M Lang, Rochelle F Hanson","doi":"10.1177/10775595241272330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595241272330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"10775595241272330"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child MaltreatmentPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/10775595241238987
Caitlin Rancher, Megan M Wallace, Austen McGuire, Daniel W Smith, Alyssa Rheingold
{"title":"Providing Clinical Psychology Training and Trauma-Focused Treatment via Telehealth During COVID-19.","authors":"Caitlin Rancher, Megan M Wallace, Austen McGuire, Daniel W Smith, Alyssa Rheingold","doi":"10.1177/10775595241238987","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10775595241238987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To slow the spread of COVID-19 many mental health providers transitioned to telehealth delivery of trauma-focused treatment for maltreated children. However, these providers faced myriad challenges, including equitable access to equipment and technical demands of telehealth software. Training clinics overseeing pre-doctoral clinical psychology interns experienced the added challenge of providing quality supervision and training via telehealth. This study involves a retrospective application of the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework to describe the innovative adaptation to a telehealth service delivery model in a training clinic providing evidence-based trauma-focused treatment to children and their families. Mixed methods data from clinic records and intern evaluations indicate that compared to pre-COVID (February 2019 - February 2020), during early COVID (April 2020 - April 2021) more patients accessed clinic services, interns reported fewer hours of individual supervision, and interns reported greater satisfaction with their training experiences. Implications for ongoing provision of telehealth services are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"451-462"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11974358/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140121123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child MaltreatmentPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/10775595231221798
Matthew Baker, Katie A Berens, Crystal J Giesbrecht, Kaila C Bruer, Angela D Evans, Heather L Price, Shanna Williams
{"title":"\"Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home\": Child Maltreatment Investigators' Perspectives of COVID-19's Effects on Maltreated Children.","authors":"Matthew Baker, Katie A Berens, Crystal J Giesbrecht, Kaila C Bruer, Angela D Evans, Heather L Price, Shanna Williams","doi":"10.1177/10775595231221798","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10775595231221798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children were at a greater risk of adverse experiences, including maltreatment, during the COVID-19 pandemic given the increased stress experienced by families and reduced visibility outside the home. Child maltreatment investigators witnessed the effects of the pandemic on maltreated children and offer valuable insight regarding children's experiences during the pandemic. The objective of this study was to examine child maltreatment investigators' perspectives of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maltreated children and their families in Canada. Sixteen child maltreatment investigators were recruited from agencies across Canada that investigate or offer services to children suspected of having been maltreated. Three focus groups were conducted, which followed a semi-structured interview guide developed by the researchers. Thematic analysis resulted in five primary themes regarding maltreatment investigators' perceptions of the pandemic's effects on children, including child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, increased exposure to violent and traumatic events, stress and challenges faced by families, reduced access to services, and challenges and delays with maltreatment investigations. Child maltreatment investigators perceived that the pandemic profoundly impacted maltreated children and their families. It is critical to ensure children and parents have access to services during future emergencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"415-429"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11323426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138812291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child MaltreatmentPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/10775595231186645
Lucy McGoron, Christopher J Trentacosta, Julie Wargo Aikins, Marjorie Beeghly, Jessica R Beatty, Sarah E Domoff, Elizabeth K Towner, Steven J Ondersma
{"title":"Risk, Emotional Support, Child Abuse Potential, and Parenting During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Lucy McGoron, Christopher J Trentacosta, Julie Wargo Aikins, Marjorie Beeghly, Jessica R Beatty, Sarah E Domoff, Elizabeth K Towner, Steven J Ondersma","doi":"10.1177/10775595231186645","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10775595231186645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation efforts created stress that threatened parent and child well-being. Conditions that increase stress within families heighten the likelihood of child abuse, but social support can mitigate the impact. This short-term investigation considered whether cumulative risk, COVID-19 specific risk, and emotional support (one aspect of social support), were associated with child abuse potential during the pandemic. Additionally, we investigated whether emotional support moderated the association between COVID-19 specific risk and child abuse potential, and associations between child abuse potential and emotionally positive and emotionally negative parenting. Participants included 89 parents, from a metropolitan area with a large number of economically distressed families, who completed online questionnaires. COVID-19 specific risk and emotional support each explained additional variance in child abuse potential beyond cumulative risk, but emotional support did not moderate the association between COVID-19 specific risk and child abuse potential. Consistent with expectations, child abuse potential was negatively associated with emotionally positive parenting and positively associated with emotionally negative parenting practices. Results highlight the importance of addressing both risks and supports at multiple levels for parents during times of stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"463-473"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10300627/pdf/10.1177_10775595231186645.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10087859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child MaltreatmentPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-11DOI: 10.1177/10775595241252350
Elizabeth R Wolf, My Nguyen, Roy T Sabo, Robin Foster, Danny Avula, Jennifer Gilbert, Casey Freymiller, Bergen B Nelson, Alex H Krist
{"title":"School Closure and Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Elizabeth R Wolf, My Nguyen, Roy T Sabo, Robin Foster, Danny Avula, Jennifer Gilbert, Casey Freymiller, Bergen B Nelson, Alex H Krist","doi":"10.1177/10775595241252350","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10775595241252350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is not known how school closure affected child maltreatment. We conducted a retrospective cohort, linear mixed-models study of 133 counties (comprising 8,582,479 children) in Virginia between 2018 and 2021. Exposure was the opening of schools at least 2 days a week. Outcomes were referrals and incidence of child maltreatment reported to the Department of Social Services. In 2020-2021, there were descriptively more referrals (in-person: 50.9 per 10,000 [95% CI: 47.9, 54.0]; virtual: 45.8 per 10,000 [95% CI: 40.7, 50.9]) and incidence (in-person: 3.7 per 10,000 [95% CI: 3.3, 4.2]; virtual: 2.9 per 10,000 [95% CI: 2.3, 3.5]) of child maltreatment in counties with in-person schooling, though these differences did not reach statistical significance. The referral rate variations (between pandemic and pre-pandemic eras) of counties with in-person schooling was significantly greater than rate changes in counties with virtual schooling during the summer period. There were no differences in incidence in any quarter. Higher poverty within a county was associated with both higher referrals and incidence. Our findings suggest that child maltreatment is driven primarily by underlying differences in counties (namely, poverty) rather than the type of schooling children receive.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"500-507"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11369664/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140909619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child MaltreatmentPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-28DOI: 10.1177/10775595241240755
Margaret C Stevenson, Vaishnavi M Ravipati, Cynthia T Schaefer
{"title":"Effects of COVID on Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Among Nurses: The Mediating Role of Compassion Fatigue.","authors":"Margaret C Stevenson, Vaishnavi M Ravipati, Cynthia T Schaefer","doi":"10.1177/10775595241240755","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10775595241240755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because COVID triggered elevated rates of child abuse, but diminished rates of child abuse reporting, we explored predictors of nurses' attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse during the COVID pandemic. In particular, we expected that compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction would mediate the effects of COVID-related stressors (i.e., exposure to COVID patient death and suffering; COVID-related family income loss; frequent direct care of COVID patients; and parental burnout) on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. Employing chain-referral sampling, we recruited a sample of 244 registered nurses (83% White; 87% women). Supporting hypotheses, compassion fatigue mediated the effects of job-related COVID stressors (exposure to COVID patient death and suffering; COVID-related family income loss; and frequent direct care of COVID patients) on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. In addition, among nurses who were also parents, nurses' self-reported parental burnout mediated the relation between compassion fatigue and negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. In addition, compassion satisfaction mediated the effect of nurses' parental burnout on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":48052,"journal":{"name":"Child Maltreatment","volume":" ","pages":"487-499"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140307408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}