Trajectories of child protective services contact among Alaska Native/American Indian and non-Native children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contact with child protective services (CPS) functions as an independent marker of child vulnerability. Alaska children are an important population for understanding patterns of CPS contact given high rates of contact overall and among specific demographic groups.

Objective

We aimed to identify longitudinal trajectory classes of CPS contact among Alaska Native/American Indian (AN/AI) and non-Native children and examine preconception and prenatal risk factors associated with identified classes.

Participants and setting

We used data from the Alaska Longitudinal Child Abuse and Neglect Linkage (ALCANLink) project, a linkage of 2009-2011 Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) births with administrative data including CPS records.

Methods<

SUBMITTER: Austin AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667300 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature