Design and evaluation of child abuse web-based application for parent education & strengthen - Para S, Shahrokhi H, Maserat E, Mohammadzadeh Z.
BACKGROUND: Child abuse is one of the major health and social problems in the world and has severe short-term and long-term consequences on children's psychological, social and physical functioning. One of the effective strategies to control and prevent ch... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 7, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.
A large study of “discordant twins,” in which only one suffered abuse or neglect, adds to evidence linking childhood trauma to adult illness. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen Barry Tags: Twins Research JAMA Psychiatry (Journal) Mental Health and Disorders Child Abuse and Neglect Sex Crimes Brain Source Type: news

A deeper look at the Boy Scouts of America "perversion" files: structural factors related to access and abuse - Mackinem MB, Laufersweiler-Dwyer D.
The Boy Scouts of America's (BSA's) Ineligible Volunteer (IV) files, commonly called the "perversion files," is a unique data set allowing researchers to examine organizational characteristics that allow for child sexual victimization. Despite the uniquene... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Child and family characteristics in multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect (MST-CAN): are there associations with treatment outcome? - Buderer C, Kirsch T, P érez T, Swenson CC, Fürstenau U, Rhiner B.
This study explored the characteristics of children and families referred to Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Clinical care of childhood sexual abuse: a systematic review and critical appraisal of guidelines from European countries - Otterman G, Nurmatov UB, Akhlaq A, Korhonen L, Kemp AM, Naughton A, Chalumeau M, Jud A, Vollmer Sandholm MJ, Mora-Theuer E, Moultrie S, Lamela D, Tagiyeva-Milne N, Nelson J, Greenbaum J.
BACKGROUND: The clinical management of Child sexual abuse (CSA) demands specialised skills from healthcare professionals due to its sensitivity, legal implications, and serious physical health and mental health effects. Standardised, comprehensive clinical... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Pilot application of SEM/EDX analysis on suspected cigarette burns in a forensic autopsy case of child abuse - Tambuzzi S, Gentile G, Primavera R, Muccino E, Zoja R.
Cigarette burn lesions present forensic scenarios that are often difficult to investigate, both from a morphological diagnostic point of view and with regard to the mode of infliction, especially if the victim is unable to speak or has died. Although there... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Experienced disrespect & abuse during childbirth and associated birth characteristics: a cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands - Leijerzapf DR, van der Pijl MSG, Hollander MH, Kingma E, De Jonge A, Verhoeven CJM.
BACKGROUND: Experiencing upsetting disrespect and abuse (D&A) during labour and birth negatively affects women's birth experiences. Knowing in what circumstances of birth women experience upsetting situations of D&A can create general awareness and help he... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Colorado Democrats Block Legislation Punishing Child Sex Traffickers
- Suggest Criminals Are Also Victims While conservative states like Florida have passed legislation to institute the death penalty for criminals guilty of child sexual abuse and child trafficking, it's becoming more and more…#colorado #florida #democrats #bill1092 #housestate #hb #statereps #andrewboesenecker #kylebrown #elisabethepps (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up
Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they causeImagine finding that someone has taken a picture of you from the internet and superimposed it on a sexually explicit image available online. Or that a video appears showing you having sex with someone you have never met.Imagine worrying that your children, partner, parents or colleagues might see this and believe it is really you. And that your frantic attempts to take it off social media keep failing, and the fake “you” keeps reappearing and multiplying. Imagine realising that these images c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 1, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Luba Kassova Tags: Deepfake Global development Artificial intelligence (AI) Consciousness Computing Technology Science Pornography Society Women's rights and gender equality Taylor Swift Human rights Law Music Culture Source Type: news

Child maltreatment among deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescent students: associations with depression and anxiety - Hammad MA, Al-Otaibi MN, Awed HS.
OBJECTIVE: Child abuse and neglect have several short- and long-term consequences for the victim. Though Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children are at higher risk of being maltreated as compared to hearing children, little research in Saudi Arabia has focused o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Oral health professional intervention and child physical abuse-European legal approach - Corte-Real A, Almiro PA, Silva M, Nunes T, Abreu J, Carreira C, Vieira DN.
This study aims to identify traumatic injuries and the medicolegal temporary framework of the victim's profile in the European legal approach. Participants and setting ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The impacts of lifetime violence on women's current sexual health - G üler A, Maas MK, Mark KP, Kussainov N, Schill K, Coker AL.
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV), nonpartner sexual violence (SV), child sexual and physical abuse, and neglect have detrimental impacts on women's reproductive and sexual health. More empirical studies are needed to investigate the negative imp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

New FtP guidance on concerns about nurses outside work
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has updated its guidance on fitness to practise to clarify ‘important principles’ relating to concerns arising outside professional practice, including sexual misconduct and abuse. Following a review, the guidance for NMC decision makers makes clear that sexual misconduct, domestic abuse and the neglect or abuse of children or vulnerable... Read moreThe post New FtP guidance on concerns about nurses outside work appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - February 28, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news

Dasani Coates featured at the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's Spring Luncheon on April 9
Funds Benefit Programs and Services that Address Child Abuse and Neglect NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will hold its annual Spring Luncheon on Tuesday, April 9, and feature a conversation with Dasani Coates,... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 27, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: FVT NPT CHI Source Type: news

Risk factors for first occurrence of documented severe physical child abuse: a systematic review - Gr æsholt-Knudsen T, Stadelhofer MV, Edelbo MF, Jensen LCG, Ullahammer WM, Gu C, Rask CU, Lucas S, Obel C, Bech BH.
A comprehensive overview of all studied individual, relational, community, and societal risk factors that precede severe physical child abuse is critical to inform preventive efforts. All available studies of substantiated, diagnosed, self-reported, or car... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news