TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk Factors for First Occurrence of Documented Severe Physical Child Abuse
T2 - a Systematic Review
AU - Græsholt-Knudsen, Troels
AU - Stadelhofer, Michelle Vestergaard
AU - Fly Edelbo, Malte
AU - Jensen, Lærke Cecilie
AU - Mølgaard Ullahammer, William
AU - Gu, Chenghao
AU - Rask, Charlotte Ulrikka
AU - Lucas, Steven
AU - Obel, Carsten Lyng
AU - Bech, Bodil Hammer
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - A comprehensive overview of all studied individual, relational, community, and societal risk factors that precede severe physical child abuse is critical to inform preventive efforts. All available studies of substantiated, diagnosed, self-reported, or caretaker-reported physical child abuse were reviewed and assessed for risk of bias, and meta-analyses of risk factors were carried out when feasible. The review was pre-registered: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42018094317 . Observational studies were included. PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, OpenGrey, and Bielefeld were searched. No limits were placed on language or publication year. A total of 29,060 records were found on the 18th of December, 2018, screened and extracted by two reviewers. Ninety-one reports were included, and of these, 37 reports were left out of results due to high risk of bias. A total of 139 risk factors were reported. The results suggest that attention to families with underweight infants, low parental education, multiple births, and former reports to social services may provide opportunities for prevention of severe physical child abuse. Overall, results showed a deficiency of evidence with low risk of bias, and a lack of any evidence from low-income countries.
AB - A comprehensive overview of all studied individual, relational, community, and societal risk factors that precede severe physical child abuse is critical to inform preventive efforts. All available studies of substantiated, diagnosed, self-reported, or caretaker-reported physical child abuse were reviewed and assessed for risk of bias, and meta-analyses of risk factors were carried out when feasible. The review was pre-registered: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42018094317 . Observational studies were included. PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, OpenGrey, and Bielefeld were searched. No limits were placed on language or publication year. A total of 29,060 records were found on the 18th of December, 2018, screened and extracted by two reviewers. Ninety-one reports were included, and of these, 37 reports were left out of results due to high risk of bias. A total of 139 risk factors were reported. The results suggest that attention to families with underweight infants, low parental education, multiple births, and former reports to social services may provide opportunities for prevention of severe physical child abuse. Overall, results showed a deficiency of evidence with low risk of bias, and a lack of any evidence from low-income countries.
KW - child maltreatment
KW - child abuse
KW - risk factors
KW - physical child abuse
KW - causality
KW - systematic review
KW - Observational Studies
KW - Physical child abuse
KW - Prevention
KW - Risk factors
KW - Systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85178138813&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s42448-023-00184-7
DO - 10.1007/s42448-023-00184-7
M3 - Review
SN - 2524-5244
VL - 7
SP - 267
EP - 323
JO - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice
JF - International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice
IS - 2
ER -