Young Nancy K, Boles Sharon M, Otero Cathleen
Children and Family Futures, CA 92620, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2007 May;12(2):137-49. doi: 10.1177/1077559507300322.
There are relatively few empirically sound studies or nationally representative data on the number of children in Child Welfare Services (CWS) who are affected by their parents' substance abuse or dependence. The two systems that could systematically monitor this population, CWS and substance abuse treatment, are not required to capture the data elements that would identify families in both systems. The studies that are based on CWS populations or parents in treatment indicate that there is a substantial overlap in client populations. This review provides a summary of the available data; provides estimates of the overlap between populations, including the number of infants born each year with prenatal substance exposure; and suggests important opportunities to close the data gap between the systems. The findings underscore both the need for obtaining accurate data within the systems and the opportunities for states to improve their cross-system data efforts as part of their outcome monitoring.
关于儿童福利服务（CWS）中受父母药物滥用或依赖影响的儿童数量，实证可靠的研究相对较少，全国代表性数据也不多。儿童福利服务系统和药物滥用治疗系统这两个能够系统监测这一人群的系统，并未被要求收集可识别两个系统中家庭情况的数据元素。基于儿童福利服务系统人群或接受治疗的父母开展的研究表明，服务对象人群存在大量重叠。本综述总结了现有数据；提供了人群重叠情况的估计，包括每年出生时存在产前药物暴露的婴儿数量；并提出了缩小两个系统间数据差距的重要机会。研究结果强调了在各系统内获取准确数据的必要性，以及各州作为其结果监测的一部分改进跨系统数据工作的机会。
