Community home visiting services and child maltreatment report rates, Illinois zip codes, 2011-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research is sparse on the community-level impacts of home visiting programs on child maltreatment.

Objective

To examine community-level associations between state-funded home visiting programs (i.e., IDHS-HV), federal-funded home visiting programs (i.e., MIECHV), and child maltreatment report (CMR) rates, overall and within subgroups of age, sex, and maltreatment type.

Participants and setting

3824 zip code-years during 2011-2018 in Illinois for IDHS-HV/CMR associations and 1896 zip code-years during 2015-2018 for MIECHV/CMR associations.

Methods

We measured county-level IDHS-HV rates (per 1000 children aged 0-5) since data were only available at that level. MIECHV rates (per 1000 children aged 0-5), CMR rates (per 1000 children), and all controls we

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10165847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature