Role of pre-existing adversity and child maltreatment on mental health outcomes for children involved in child protection: population-based data linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine mental health outcomes for children with a history of child protection system involvement, accounting for pre-existing adversity, and to examine variation in risk across diagnostic groupings and child protection subgroups.

Design

A longitudinal, population-based record-linkage study.

Participants

All children in Western Australia (WA) with birth records between 1990 and 2009.

Outcome measures

Mental health diagnoses, mental health contacts and any mental health event ascertained from International Classification of Diseases codes within WA's Hospital Morbidity Data Collection and Mental Health Information System from birth until 2013.

Results

Compared with children without child protection contact, children with substantiated malt

SUBMITTER: Maclean MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678009 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature