Using Number of Reports Adjusted for Exposure (NRAE) to Measure Child Maltreatment

The purpose of the present study is to suggest an alternative method of quantifying child maltreatment. The number of reports of child abuse and neglect to the North Carolina Department of Social Services was adjusted for the amount of time the child lived in the state and was therefore exposed to p...

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Published in:Child maltreatment 1998-08, Vol.3 (3), p.251-261
Main Authors: Lowman, Betsy Caudle, Kotch, Jonathan B., Jung, Jin-Whan, Browne, Dorothy H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Information
Biological and medical sciences
Caseworkers
Child Abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child Advocacy
Child Behavior
Child maltreatment
Child Neglect
Community Relations
Drug Use
Family (Sociological Unit)
Medical sciences
Methodology
Methodology. Experimentation
Mothers
Outcome Measures
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public School Teachers
Public Schools
Quantification
Regression (Statistics)
Regression analysis
School Nurses
Social Services
Social Work
State Agencies
Student Personnel Workers
Teaching Methods
Techniques and methods
USA
Young Children
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Summary:The purpose of the present study is to suggest an alternative method of quantifying child maltreatment. The number of reports of child abuse and neglect to the North Carolina Department of Social Services was adjusted for the amount of time the child lived in the state and was therefore exposed to possible reporting to create the number of reports adjusted for exposure (NRAE). NRAE was then used as the dependent variable in a Poisson regression with information from 741 mothers interviewed in-depth shortly after the birth of a child. The analysis resulted in the identification of several additional predictors of child maltreatment.
ISSN:1077-5595
1552-6119
DOI:10.1177/1077559598003003005