Kim Hyunil, Wildeman Christopher, Jonson-Reid Melissa, Drake Brett
Hyunil Kim, Melissa Jonson-Reid, and Brett Drake are with Brown School of Social Work and Public Health, Washington University, St Louis, MO. Christopher Wildeman is with the College of Human Ecology and the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Am J Public Health. 2017 Feb;107(2):274-280. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303545. Epub 2016 Dec 20.
To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child maltreatment among children in the United States.
We used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child Files (2003-2014) and Census data to develop synthetic cohort life tables to estimate the cumulative prevalence of reported childhood maltreatment. We extend previous work, which explored only confirmed rates of maltreatment, and we add new estimations of maltreatment by subtype, age, and ethnicity.
We estimate that 37.4% of all children experience a child protective services investigation by age 18 years. Consistent with previous literature, we found a higher rate for African American children (53.0%) and the lowest rate for Asians/Pacific Islanders (10.2%).
Child maltreatment investigations are more common than is generally recognized when viewed across the lifespan. Building on other recent work, our data suggest a critical need for increased preventative and treatment resources in the area of child maltreatment.
估算美国儿童中遭受虐待官方调查的终生患病率。
我们使用了国家虐待与忽视儿童数据系统儿童档案（2003 - 2014年）和人口普查数据来编制合成队列生命表，以估算报告的儿童期虐待的累积患病率。我们扩展了之前仅探讨虐待确诊率的研究，并新增了按亚型、年龄和种族划分的虐待情况的估算。
我们估计，到18岁时，37.4%的儿童经历过儿童保护服务调查。与之前的文献一致，我们发现非裔美国儿童的比率更高（53.0%），而亚裔/太平洋岛民儿童的比率最低（10.2%）。
从整个生命周期来看，儿童虐待调查比普遍认知的更为常见。基于近期的其他研究，我们的数据表明，在儿童虐待领域迫切需要增加预防和治疗资源。
