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Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: The possibility that child maltreatment was misclassified as unintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE: We assessed if child maltreatment hospitalizations changed during the pandemic, and if the change was accompanied by an increase in unintentio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10080276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37060690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106186 |
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author | Côté-Corriveau, Gabriel Luu, Thuy Mai Lewin, Antoine Brousseau, Émilie Ayoub, Aimina Blaser, Christine Auger, Nathalie |
author_facet | Côté-Corriveau, Gabriel Luu, Thuy Mai Lewin, Antoine Brousseau, Émilie Ayoub, Aimina Blaser, Christine Auger, Nathalie |
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description | BACKGROUND: The possibility that child maltreatment was misclassified as unintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE: We assessed if child maltreatment hospitalizations changed during the pandemic, and if the change was accompanied by an increase in unintentional injuries. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: This study included children aged 0–4 years who were admitted for maltreatment or unintentional injuries between April 2006 and March 2021 in hospitals of Quebec, Canada. METHODS: We used interrupted time series regression to estimate the effect of the pandemic on hospitalization rates for maltreatment, compared with unintentional transport accidents, falls, and mechanical force injuries. We assessed if the change in maltreatment hospitalization was accompanied by an increase in specific types of unintentional injury. RESULTS: Hospitalizations for child maltreatment decreased from 16.3 per 100,000 (95 % CI 9.1–23.4) the year before the pandemic to 13.2 per 100,000 (95 % CI 6.7–19.7) during the first lockdown. Hospitalizations for most types of unintentional injury also decreased, but injuries due to falls involving another person increased from 9.0 to 16.5 per 100,000. Hospitalization rates for maltreatment and unintentional injury remained low during the second lockdown, but mechanical force injuries involving another person increased from 3.8 to 8.1 per 100,000. CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalizations for child maltreatment may have been misclassified as unintentional injuries involving another person during the pandemic. Children admitted for these types of unintentional injuries may benefit from closer assessment to rule out maltreatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-100802762023-04-07 Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic Côté-Corriveau, Gabriel Luu, Thuy Mai Lewin, Antoine Brousseau, Émilie Ayoub, Aimina Blaser, Christine Auger, Nathalie Child Abuse Negl Article BACKGROUND: The possibility that child maltreatment was misclassified as unintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE: We assessed if child maltreatment hospitalizations changed during the pandemic, and if the change was accompanied by an increase in unintentional injuries. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: This study included children aged 0–4 years who were admitted for maltreatment or unintentional injuries between April 2006 and March 2021 in hospitals of Quebec, Canada. METHODS: We used interrupted time series regression to estimate the effect of the pandemic on hospitalization rates for maltreatment, compared with unintentional transport accidents, falls, and mechanical force injuries. We assessed if the change in maltreatment hospitalization was accompanied by an increase in specific types of unintentional injury. RESULTS: Hospitalizations for child maltreatment decreased from 16.3 per 100,000 (95 % CI 9.1–23.4) the year before the pandemic to 13.2 per 100,000 (95 % CI 6.7–19.7) during the first lockdown. Hospitalizations for most types of unintentional injury also decreased, but injuries due to falls involving another person increased from 9.0 to 16.5 per 100,000. Hospitalization rates for maltreatment and unintentional injury remained low during the second lockdown, but mechanical force injuries involving another person increased from 3.8 to 8.1 per 100,000. CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalizations for child maltreatment may have been misclassified as unintentional injuries involving another person during the pandemic. Children admitted for these types of unintentional injuries may benefit from closer assessment to rule out maltreatment. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023-06 2023-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10080276/ /pubmed/37060690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106186 Text en © 2023 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Côté-Corriveau, Gabriel Luu, Thuy Mai Lewin, Antoine Brousseau, Émilie Ayoub, Aimina Blaser, Christine Auger, Nathalie Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | hospitalization for child maltreatment and other types of injury during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10080276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37060690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106186 |
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