Jonson-Reid Melissa, Chance Toni, Drake Brett
Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2007 Feb;12(1):86-95. doi: 10.1177/1077559506296722.
This article presents analyses of longitudinal data to explore whether low-income children who survived a first incident of reported maltreatment were at higher risk of later childhood death compared to a matched comparison group of low-income children without reports of maltreatment (n = 7,433). Compared to the comparison group, children in the maltreatment group had about twice the risk of death before age 18 (0.51% vs. 0.27%). Among children with mal-treatment reports, median time from the first report to subsequent death was 9 months. The majority of deaths among children who were reported for maltreatment could be categorized as preventable (accidents or recurrent maltreatment) as compared to resulting from severe health conditions.
本文对纵向数据进行了分析，以探究与一组匹配的未报告受虐待情况的低收入儿童对照组（n = 7,433）相比，经历过首次报告的虐待事件后幸存下来的低收入儿童在童年后期死亡的风险是否更高。与对照组相比，受虐待组的儿童在18岁之前死亡的风险约为对照组的两倍（0.51% 对 0.27%）。在有虐待报告的儿童中，从首次报告到随后死亡的中位时间为9个月。与因严重健康状况导致的死亡相比，报告受虐待儿童中的大多数死亡可归类为可预防的（意外事故或反复虐待）。
