Risk of death among children reported for nonfatal maltreatment.
This article presents analyses of longitudinal data to explore whether low-income children who survived a first incident of reported maltreatment were at higher risk of later childhood death compared to a matched comparison group of low-income children without reports of maltreatment (n = 7,433). Compared to the comparison group, children in the maltreatment group had about twice the risk of death before age 18 (0.51% vs. 0.27%). Among children with mal-treatment reports, median time from the first report to subsequent death was 9 months. The majority of deaths among children who were reported for maltreatment could be categorized as preventable (accidents or recurrent maltreatment) as compared to resulting from severe health conditions.
Jonson-Reid
Melissa
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Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.
Chance
Toni
T
Drake
Brett
B
D017028:Caregivers; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012307:Risk Factors; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology