Importance Child maltreatment is a risk factor for poor health throughout the life course.
Existing estimates of the proportion of the US population maltreated during childhood are …

Objectives. To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child
maltreatment among children in the United States. Methods. We used the National Child …

Objectives Child maltreatment (CM) causes injury in large numbers of US children. This
study uses a large, multi-state dataset of child protective services reports for infants and …

OBJECTIVE: To describe how child maltreatment chronicity is related to negative outcomes
in later childhood and early adulthood. METHODS: The study included 5994 low-income …

Objective We estimated cumulative probabilities of onset and recurrences of child
maltreatment reports from birth to age 11 years. Estimates were provided overall and within …

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of child
maltreatment in the United States and examine its relationship to sociodemographic factors …

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 …

Objective: To identify demographic, family, parent, and child factors prospectively associated
with risk for child abuse and neglect among families in the community, using data on child …

BACKGROUND: Public health surveillance was established for nonfatal child maltreatment
in Missouri using two data sources. This paper describes the epidemiology of nonfatal child …

This article presents a population-based study of early childhood injury mortality following a
nonfatal allegation of maltreatment. Findings are based on a unique data set constructed by …