Hospitalizations among children involved in the child protection system: A long-term birth cohort study from infancy to adulthood using administrative data.

CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the vulnerability of children who have been maltreated, or are at risk of maltreatment, and the urgency of implementing effective preventive strategies early in life including consideration of adequate responses of child protection services. Frequent hospitalizations for mental health and injury confirms the potentially preventable nature of these hospitalizations.
PMID: 32652507 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - July 7, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Gnanamanickam ES, Nguyen H, Armfield JM, Doidge JC, Brown DS, Preen DB, Segal L Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: research