Titre : | Concordance between self-reported maltreatment and court records of abuse or neglect among high-risk youths (2006) |
Auteurs : | M. H. SWAHN ; WHITAKER D. J. ; PIPPEN C. B. ; LEEB R. T. ; L. A. TEPLIN ; K. M. ABRAM ; G. M. McCLELLAND |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | American Journal of Public Health (Vol.96 n°10, 2006) |
Article en page(s) : | 1849-1853 |
Note générale : |
American Journal of Public Health, 2006, 96, (10), 1849-1853 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés MALTRAITANCE ; FACTEUR DE RISQUE ; POPULATION A RISQUE ; CONSOMMATION |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : OBJECTIVES: We examined the concordance between measures of self-reported maltreatment and court records of abuse or neglect in a sample of detained youths. METHODS: Data were collected by the Northwestern Juvenile Project and include interviews from 1829 youths aged 10-18 years. Participants were newly detained youths in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Illinois between 1995 and 1998. Self-reported cases of child maltreatment were compared with court records of abuse or neglect in the Cook County judicial system. RESULTS: We found that among detained youths, 16.6% of those who reported any maltreatment, 22.2% of those who reported the highest level of maltreatment, and 25.1% of those who reported that they required medical treatment as a result of maltreatment had a court record of abuse or neglect. Among those with any self-reported maltreatment, girls (vs boys) and African Americans (vs Whites) were more likely to have a court record (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=2.18; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.53, 3.09; and AOR=2.12; 95% CI=1.23, 3.63, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Official records seriously underestimate the prevalence of maltreatment, which indicates that multiple data sources are needed to document the true prevalence of maltreatment. (Author' s abstract) |
Note de contenu : | tabl. |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 32 |
Affiliation : |
Office on Smoking and Health, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga 30341-3724, USA. mswahn@cdc.gov Etats-Unis. United States. |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | Abonnement |
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