Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs: are there differences in post-investigation service decisions?
| Autor: | King, Bryn, Filippelli, Joanne, Fallon, Barbara, Joh-Carnella, Nicolette, Lung, Yu |
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MENTAL illness risk factors
STATISTICS CAREGIVERS CHILD sexual abuse CONFIDENCE intervals CHILD abuse MULTIVARIATE analysis FAMILIES SOCIOECONOMIC factors BEHAVIOR disorders in children CHILD welfare DECISION making CHI-squared test RESEARCH funding DESCRIPTIVE statistics HOUSING LOGISTIC regression analysis DATA analysis software ODDS ratio DATA analysis MEDICAL needs assessment HEALTH care rationing SECONDARY analysis |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Child Welfare; Sep-Dec2022, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p652-678, 27p, 2 Diagrams, 4 Charts |
| Abstrakt: | Previous research has proposed an urgent-chronic taxonomy of maltreatment investigations to better understand how child welfare services across Canada operationalized the dual mandate of child safety and well-being. Data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2013a) were used to examine post investigation service decisions using this taxonomy. Logistic regression and chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID, a non-parametric classification tree) assessed the characteristics associated with the decision to provide ongoing child welfare services for investigations involving urgent vs. chronic concerns. Of an estimated 123,162 child protection investigations, approximately 11% were considered urgent and the other 89% involved chronic need. A quarter of investigations were transferred to ongoing services for both groups, and an assessment that there was future risk of maltreatment and caregiver mental health issues were significant and substantial factors, along with economic hardship and housing problems. Uniformity in the investigative response suggests that the decision to provide more intensive child welfare services is based more on the circumstances of the family than the nature of the primary protection concern. Since child protection investigations are oriented toward addressing urgent maltreatment, greater precision about the purpose of child welfare involvement in Ontario is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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