Physical Abuse in Children
Using US Data to Estimate the Incidence of Serious Physical Abuse in Children
... of physical abuse are counted in both approaches to col- lecting national data, neither approach can speci fi cally identify cases of seri- ous physical abuse, such as children who are ...
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Screening for Occult Abdominal Trauma in Children With Suspected Physical Abuse
... among children with suspected physical ...among children who were young, were members of a minority, were insured through Medicaid, and had more- severe ...
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Markers for Occult Liver Injury in Cases of Physical Abuse in Children
... All patients evaluated for possible physical abuse, including those without any suggestion of abdominal injury either by history or physical examination, had the following laboratory tes[r] ...
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PHYSICAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN
... throughout the United States, the distribu- tion patterns of these incidents, the charac- teristics of the children, families, and per- petrators involved in the incidents, the cir-. cum[r] ...
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Evaluating Children With Fractures for Child Physical Abuse
... In children with fractures suspicious for abuse, serum calcium, phosphorus, and al- kaline phosphatase should be reviewed, although alkaline phosphatase may be elevated with healing ...young children ...
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How to Orient Yourself in the Wilderness
... 2012 physical abuse of children declined by 54% and the decline for sexual abuse declined 62% (Finkelhor, Jones, Shattuck, & Saito, ...
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Sexual Abuse of Children: Intersection With the HIV Epidemic
... 9136 children reported with HIV or AIDS, 26 were sexually abused with confirmed (n 5 17) or suspected (n 5 9) exposure to HIV infection; mean age of these children at diagnosis of HIV infection was ...
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Anal signs of child sexual abuse: a case–control study
... all children referred to the same centre for suspected physical abuse or neglect of themselves or sib- lings who had forensic inspection of the anus in accord- ance with national guidance [23], and ...
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Does perceived social support influence the relationship between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms?
... emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect), adult depressive symptomatology, and perceived social support have not been amply ...
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Keeping the White Family Together: Racial Disparities in the Out of Home Placements of Maltreated Children
... those children who experience physical, sexual and multiple abuse types, illustrates that the child welfare sys- tem may not aim to remove children from an abusive home, but rather to remove ...
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Variation in Occult Injury Screening for Children With Suspected Abuse in Selected US Children’s Hospitals
... of physical abuse and infants who have injuries that carry a high likeli- hood of abuse illustrates the fi nding that uniform adoption of practice guidelines for screening has not oc- curred across ...
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Pediatrics Digest
... of physical abuse from 1992 to 2009, but no study has tracked the occurrence of serious injuries due to physical ...hospitalized children, we found a statistically signi fi cant increase in the ...
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Use of Skeletal Surveys to Evaluate for Physical Abuse: Analysis of 703 Consecutive Skeletal Surveys
... test). Children who presented to the hospital with an apparent life- threatening event (ALTE)/apnea or a seizure had higher rates of positive SS results than did those who presented for other reasons (ALTE, ...66 ...
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Critical Elements in the Medical Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse
... of children at high ...these children only in the acute setting … [others are] in a position to make recommendations to CPS to address the psychosocial ...
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Incidence of Fractures Among Children With Burns With Concern Regarding Abuse
... were children ⬍ 5 years of age who un- derwent subspecialty evaluation be- cause of concerns for physical ...child abuse consultant had performed any of the following: (1) written a note in the ...
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An Examination of a Process Model of Physical Child Abuse: Considering Direct, Indirect, and Interactive Effects of Cumulative Socio-Contextual Risk on Markers of Physical Child Abuse in Mothers of Young Children
... of physical abuse. Like child abuse potential, negative child perceptions revealed by parents during general discussions of their children has less obvious social desirability ...their ...
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Emotional, physical and sexual abuse and its psychological impact in children
... and physical abuse are more likely to be adopted in families where parents smoked and used alcohol or psychoactive ...child abuse in families with a history of substance ...and physical ...
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A Study on Child Neglect and Preventive Measures: A Review
... country's children is integral for its progress and development because children are priceless to the ...million children and their families each year compared to other child maltreatment like ...
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Which Are the Factors Associated to Child Mistreatment? Use of a Routinely Collected Specific Dataset for Surveillance in a Belgian Pediatric Unit
... Child abuse is a serious health problem with compelling evidence that the phe- nomenon is common throughout the ...of physical, sexual, psychological abuse or of ...439 children hospitalized ...
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Spatial Analysis of Substantiated Child Maltreatment in Metro Atlanta, Georgia
... child abuse and neglect by their biological parents among children under four years old for the years ...of abuse and rates of neglect are calculated and analyzed separately. Abuse is referred ...
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