Parental physical disease severity and severe documented physical child abuse: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Successful prevention of physical child abuse is dependent on improvements in risk assessment. The risk of abuse is assumed to increase when family stressors overcome resources. Severe physical disease can increase stress, and parental physical disease has been studied as a risk factor for physical child abuse, but with heterogeneous definitions. This study evaluated the relation between parental physical disease severity and severe documented physical child abuse. Models were based on data on children aged 0-17 years in Denmark between 1997 and 2018, and their parents. Severe documented physical child abuse was modeled as violence against a child registered by either health authorities in treatment or mortality registries, or police authorities in cases confirmed by the courts. Parental p

SUBMITTER: Græsholt-Knudsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10857964 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature