School Closure and Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor:	Wolf ER; Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.; Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA., Nguyen M; Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA., Sabo RT; Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA., Foster R; Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.; Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA., Avula D; Virginia Department of Social Services, Richmond, VA, USA., Gilbert J; Department of Family Medicine and Population Health,Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA., Freymiller C; Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.; Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA., Nelson BB; Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.; Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, VA, USA., Krist AH; Department of Family Medicine and Population Health,Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Child maltreatment [Child Maltreat] 2024 Aug; Vol. 29 (3), pp. 500-507. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 11.
DOI:	10.1177/10775595241252350
Abstrakt:	It is not known how school closure affected child maltreatment. We conducted a retrospective cohort, linear mixed-models study of 133 counties (comprising 8,582,479 children) in Virginia between 2018 and 2021. Exposure was the opening of schools at least 2 days a week. Outcomes were referrals and incidence of child maltreatment reported to the Department of Social Services. In 2020-2021, there were descriptively more referrals (in-person: 50.9 per 10,000 [95% CI: 47.9, 54.0]; virtual: 45.8 per 10,000 [95% CI: 40.7, 50.9]) and incidence (in-person: 3.7 per 10,000 [95% CI: 3.3, 4.2]; virtual: 2.9 per 10,000 [95% CI: 2.3, 3.5]) of child maltreatment in counties with in-person schooling, though these differences did not reach statistical significance. The referral rate variations (between pandemic and pre-pandemic eras) of counties with in-person schooling was significantly greater than rate changes in counties with virtual schooling during the summer period. There were no differences in incidence in any quarter. Higher poverty within a county was associated with both higher referrals and incidence. Our findings suggest that child maltreatment is driven primarily by underlying differences in counties (namely, poverty) rather than the type of schooling children receive. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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