ArticleChild abuse review (Chichester, England : 1992)
What Do Confessions Reveal About Abusive Head Trauma? A Systematic Review.
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- Characteristics and Popularity of Videos of Abusive Head Trauma Prevention: Systematic Appraisal.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
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- Pathophysiological hypotheses of the triad in abusive infant shaking: A systematic review and analysis of corroborated cases.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2025Article
- A critical review of the American Academy of Pediatrics technical report on abusive head trauma.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2025Review
- Comparing the kinematics related to inflicted head injury between violent shaking of a 6-week-old and a 1-year-old infant surrogate.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- What are the computed tomography patterns of head injury following low-velocity accidental head trauma in infants?Pediatric radiology · 2025Article
- Accidental vs. Abusive Head Trauma in Infancy: Is Revival Shaking the Missing Link?Clinical case reports · 2024Article
- Maternal, prenatal and postnatal risk factors for early child physical abuse: a French nationwide cohort study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Why admitted cases of AHT make a low quality reference standard: A survey of people accused of AHT in France.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
- Agreements and disagreements regarding "shaken baby syndrome".Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Physical abuse of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Alarming increase in the relative frequency of hospitalizations during the lockdown period.Child abuse & neglect · 2021Article
- Spinal subdural hemorrhage in abusive head trauma: a pictorial review.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Although confessions related to abusive head trauma (AHT) are reported, no detailed analysis exists. Therefore, we systematically reviewed studies of AHT confessions and examined the details, including country of origin, mechanisms and perpetrators' characteristics [PUBLISHER - THE PRECEDING UNDERLINED TEXT IS FOR THE MARGIN]. Employing 36 search terms across three search engines, we searched Medline and CINAHL from 1963 to 2018. All relevant studies underwent two independent reviews and data extraction. Descriptive statistics were used to characterise the sample; chi square and Fisher's exact tests were used to assess differences in demographic and clinical characteristics. Of 6759 identified studies, 157 full texts were reviewed and 55 articles from 15 countries spanning four continents were included. Included articles contained 434 confessions. The mechanisms of abuse included shaking alone (64.1%), impact alone (17.1%), shaking plus impact (18.0%) and other (0.9%). There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of confessions reporting shaking alone when comparing continents: North America (64.0%), Europe (64.2%) and Oceania (60.0%;
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