Safeguarding: Research

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• Trends in Hospitalization Rates and Severity of Injuries From Abuse in Young Children, 1997–2009
  To examine trends in incidence of hospitalizations for injury from abuse in young children from 1997 through 2009 and to examine injury severity trends.
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Family risk as a predictor of initial engagement and follow-through in a universal nurse home visiting program to prevent child maltreatment
  As nurse home visiting to prevent child maltreatment grows in popularity with both program administrators and legislators, it is important to understand engagement in such programs in order to improve their community-wid ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Running away from out-of-home care: a multilevel analysis
  According to the authors previous research suggests that the likelihood of runaway episodes among children in out-of-home care varies across different communities/regions but the potential regional variation has rarely b ...
  
  Publisher: Children and Society
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Parenting support needs assessment: screening for child maltreatment risk in young families
  The objective of the study was to examine the Parenting Support Needs Assessment (PSNA) for content validity, internal consistency reliability, and clinical usefulness.
  
  Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Health Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Training maltreating parents in elaborative and emotion-rich reminiscing with their preschool-aged children
  The effects of training maltreating parents and their preschool-aged children in elaborative and emotion-rich reminiscing were examined in this study.
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The prevalence and impact of child maltreatment and other types of victimization in the UK: Findings from a population survey of caregivers, children and young people and young adults
  The objectives of this study were to measure the prevalence of maltreatment and other types of victimisation among children, young people, and young adults in the UK; to explore the risks of other types of victimisation ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• A five year follow-up study of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry
  The objective of this follow-up study was to evaluate the degree to which practice changes identified in the 2004/2005 evaluation of the Bristol Pregnancy Domestic Violence Programme (BPDVP) for routine enquiry for domes ...
  
  Publisher: Midwifery
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Involved by right: The voice of the child in the child protection conferences
  In the context of Involved by right, an EU Daphne programme grant-funded project which seeks to improve participation and advocacy in child protection, this document - the final report of the project - provides evidence ...
  
  Publisher: National Children's Bureau (NCB)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Maltreatment in foster care: a review of the evidence
  This article examines the evidence on maltreatment in foster care, drawing on a critical review of research published in the USA, the UK and Australia.
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse Review
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Child maltreatment and household dysfunction in a British birth cohort
  In this article, the authors assess the prevalence of child maltreatments, their co-occurrence and associations with household dysfunction in a large population cohort.
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse Review
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Invisible victims: recorded crime and children in the UK
  The author writes that in the UK, there has been a strong tendency to focus on child protection statistics while children as victims of crime remain largely invisible in annual crime reports and associated compendia. Thi ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse Review
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Whose rights count? Negotiating practice, policy, and legal dilemmas regarding infant–parent contact when infants are in out-of-home care
  The authors say that this article takes a human rights perspective with a view to articulating the infant's perspective when the infant has been subjected to abuse, neglect, or both and is reliant on the state to ensure ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Mothers in methadone treatment and their involvement with the child protection system: a replication and extension study
  Although a high level of involvement with the child protection system has been identified in families where parental substance use is a feature, not all such parents abuse or neglect their children or have contact with t ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Poly-victimization among juvenile justice-involved youths
  This study replicates and extends the research literature on poly-victimisation with a vulnerable and under-served population, juvenile justice-involved youths.
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The utility of follow-up skeletal surveys in child abuse
  Follow-up skeletal surveys (FUSS) are performed frequently in cases of possible physical abuse based on the evidence from small retrospective cohorts. The authors' objective was to determine the proportion of FUSS that i ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2013