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SynthesisBulletin of the World Health Organization2009

Child maltreatment prevention: a systematic review of reviews.

Christopher Mikton, Alexander Butchart

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Healthy food procurement and nutrition standards in public facilities: evidence synthesis and consensus policy recommendations.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2018
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  12. School-based education programmes for the prevention of child sexual abuse.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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  16. Evidence for varicose vein treatment: an overview of systematic reviews.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
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  17. The Families First Program to Prevent Child Abuse: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in West Java, Indonesia.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022
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  19. What Affects Attendance and Engagement in a Parenting Program in South Africa?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher MiktonDepartment of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. miktonc@who.int
Alexander Butchart

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo synthesize recent evidence from systematic and comprehensive reviews on the effectiveness of universal and selective child maltreatment prevention interventions, evaluate the methodological quality of the reviews and outcome evaluation studies they are based on, and map the geographical distribution of the evidence.

methodsA systematic review of reviews was conducted. The quality of the systematic reviews was evaluated with a tool for the assessment of multiple systematic reviews (AMSTAR), and the quality of the outcome evaluations was assessed using indicators of internal validity and of the construct validity of outcome measures.

findingsThe review focused on seven main types of interventions: home visiting, parent education, child sex abuse prevention, abusive head trauma prevention, multi-component interventions, media-based interventions, and support and mutual aid groups. Four of the seven - home-visiting, parent education, abusive head trauma prevention and multi-component interventions - show promise in preventing actual child maltreatment. Three of them - home visiting, parent education and child sexual abuse prevention - appear effective in reducing risk factors for child maltreatment, although these conclusions are tentative due to the methodological shortcomings of the reviews and outcome evaluation studies they draw on. An analysis of the geographical distribution of the evidence shows that outcome evaluations of child maltreatment prevention interventions are exceedingly rare in low- and middle-income countries and make up only 0.6% of the total evidence base.

conclusionEvidence for the effectiveness of four of the seven main types of interventions for preventing child maltreatment is promising, although it is weakened by methodological problems and paucity of outcome evaluations from low- and middle-income countries.

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ChildChild AbuseDatabases, BibliographicHumansReview Literature as Topic

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PMID19551253
PMCPMC2678770

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