ArticleChild abuse & neglect2021
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic.
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- Professional mental health aid for children, adolescents, and young adults during COVID-19 in Flanders, Belgium.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- "Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home": Child Maltreatment Investigators' Perspectives of COVID-19's Effects on Maltreated Children.Child maltreatment · 2024Article
- Ethnically distinct populations and coping with violence against children in the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Counts and child protection reports of diagnosed child maltreatment before and after the COVID-19 pandemic onset.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Article
- Review of pediatric emergency care and the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2023Article
- Pivoting injury prevention efforts during a pandemic: results of an international survey.Injury epidemiology · 2023Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Infant Maltreatment Emergency Department and Inpatient Medical Encounters.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- COVID-19 lockdown effect on healthcare utilization and in-hospital mortality in children under 5 years in Cape Town, South Africa: a cross-sectional study.Journal of tropical pediatrics · 2023Article
- Evaluating the Regional Differences in Pediatric Injury Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Journal of surgical research · 2023Article
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- Prevalence and Correlates of Non-Dating Sexual Violence, Sexual Dating Violence, and Physical Dating Violence Victimization among U.S. High School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, 2021.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
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Abstract
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objectivesThere is widespread concern that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the incidence of child maltreatment. However, reports in the scientific literature documenting rates of child maltreatment during this period are scarce. This study was designed to explore whether the incidence of child maltreatment among patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective review of patients of all ages presenting to a pediatric Emergency Department trauma center, who also had a child abuse report filing or a sentinel injury diagnosis related to their index visit. All such patients who presented to this institution from March through July of 2017 through 2020 were included in the study.
resultsAnalysis demonstrated an increase in the incidence of child maltreatment in May and June of 2020 and that there was an overall shift in distribution of types of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a significant increase in the proportion of emotional/psychological abuse (2.52 % before the pandemic to 7.00 % during the pandemic, p ≤ 0.0001) and non-medical neglect (31.5%-40.0%, p ≤ 0.0001).
conclusionsWe observed an increase in specific types of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings highlight the need for increased attention to children at risk for child abuse and neglect.
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