Child maltreatment prevention: a systematic review of reviews

Mikton, Christopher; Butchart, Alexander

doi:10.2471/blt.08.057075

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“…There is strong evidence from high-income countries that parenting programmes can reduce harsh and abusive punishment and reduce behaviour problems in children that are predictive of future perpetration of violence (Gilbert et al 2009;Kane, Wood, and Barlow 2007;Mikton and Butchart 2009). Emerging studies from low-and middle-income countries are showing similar results (Eshel et al 2006;Knerr, Gardner, and Cluver 2010).…”

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Restoring paradise in the Caribbean: combatting violence with numbers

2017

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ative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose.No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license. They lead to injury and the loss of human life, erode confidence in government, reduce the competitiveness of industries and services, negatively alter the investment climate, contribute to emigration, and can lead to the loss of skilled and educated citizens. Consequently, improving citizen security has become a priority of the Inter-American Development Bank in its efforts to support the governments and citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.While citizen security has become an ever-increasing concern for many Caribbean countries, the magnitude of the problem has not been matched with an equally robust response in terms of research. Cross-national studies on the prevalence, causes, and effects of violence in the region are few. Empirical studies showing which policies have worked to reduce crime in the Caribbean are even scarcer.This volume analyses new data collected in household and business victimization surveys. These surveys allow us to understand crime from a primary source-the victims themselves. As such, this study goes beyond much of the existing literature, which relies primarily on police data. It contributes new information to our understanding of crime patterns, victim profiles, determinants of particular types of crime, and directions for crime reduction in the region.While the crime situation varies among countries, broadly speaking the Caribbean suffers from uniquely high levels of violent crime. After providing an overview of crime in five Caribbean capital cities, this volume addresses several factors associated with violent crime. These include youth, violence against women and children, neighbourhood characteristics, gangs, guns, and the police and criminal justice systems. The cost of this crime and violence to the Caribbean-about 3 percent of GDP-is significant. The study finds that victimization has negative ramifications for businesses, economic growth, tourism arrivals, emigration, and life satisfaction.However, perhaps the most unique aspect of this study is that it has been written with the specific intention of informing policy and programme design. There is much work in the region that is promising and much that is ineffective.This report helps to identify both, and urges that rigorous evaluations of the more promising programmes be conduc...

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Section: Family and Parenting Interventionssupporting

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“…Three recent reviews of parenting programmes in LMICs found positive effects on direct measures of children's cognitive and language development across diverse policy, service delivery, and social contexts. (23)(24)(25). We updated and expanded on the previous reviews by conducting a meta-analysis of non-cognitive outcomes and concluded that parenting programmes increased scores on measures of psycho-social development (SMD 0·35, 95% CI 0·14-0·56, 13 studies) and motor development (SMD 0.13, 95% CI 0·07-0·19, 9 studies), in addition to child cognitive development (SMD 0.36, 95% CI 0·22-0·49, 19 studies).…”

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“…For example, including stimulation in nutrition programmes can improve developmental outcomes, which cannot be fully promoted through nutrition interventions alone. (23) Breastfeeding is an example of an intervention, which combines elements of nutrition with bonding.…”

Section: In Summary: Nurturing Care and Protection Can Mediate Risk Fmentioning

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“…The RMNCH and nutrition reviews relied primarily on five recent overviews of reviews, including the Lancet 2014 Every Newborn series, (13) (21) A meta-analysis of education programmes was conducted to determine non-cognitive developmental benefits of parenting and early childhood education programmes, as this information was not available in existing systematic reviews. The maltreatment review updated the Lancet 2009 series for prevention of child maltreatment (22) and a systematic review of reviews of interventions to reduce child maltreatment, (23) in addition to a review of 14 recent reviews of maltreatment prevention interventions, including home visiting, (24)(25)(26), parenting-training programmes, (27,28) sexual abuse prevention programmes, (29,30) universal campaigns to prevent physical abuse,(31) behavioural and counseling interventions,(32) detection of child maltreatment, (33) and three review studies on prevention of child maltreatment. (34)(35)(36) The social protection review examined five systematic reviews that focused on the effects of social programmes, including conditional and unconditional cash transfers and microcredit schemes.…”

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Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a historic opportunity to implement at scale interventions to promote Early Childhood Development (ECD). While the evidence base for the importance of ECD has grown, the research is distributed across sectors, populations, and settings with diversity noted in the scope and focus. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive updated analyses of ECD interventions across five sectors: health; nutrition; education; child protection; and social protection. Our review concludes that to make interventions, successful, smarter and sustainable, they need to be implemented as multi-sectoral intervention packages anchored in "nurturing care". The recommendations emphasize that intervention packages should be applied at developmentally appropriate times during the life-course, target multiple risks, and build on existing delivery platforms for feasibility of scale-up. While interventions will continue to improve with the growth of developmental science, the evidence is now strong that parents, caregivers, and families need to be supported in providing nurturing care and protection for young children to achieve their developmental potential.

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“…[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] Some home visitation experts caution that potential program impacts on maltreatment may be obscured by "surveillance effects" because families receiving home visitation (ie, the intervention group) have regular contact with professionals or paraprofessionals who might identify and report instances of maltreatment, whereas families not participating in the program (ie, the control group) are not exposed to the same level of scrutiny. 24,36 The mixed nature of findings for these home visitation programs suggests that the next step is to determine which program strategieswork best for whom and under what conditions.…”

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Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

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OBJECTIVE: To test, with a sample of adolescent mothers (16–20 at childbirth) and their first-born infants/toddlers (average age 1 year), whether the impact of a home visiting (HV) child maltreatment prevention program was moderated by maternal depression. METHODS: The study design was a randomized controlled trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide child maltreatment prevention program. A total of 707 first-time mothers were randomly assigned to the HV or control group. The HV group received visits from paraprofessional home visitors. Mothers in the control group were referred to other service providers. The outcome variable consisted of state Child Protective Services reports of child abuse and neglect (mother or other person as perpetrator). Maternal depression was assessed by maternal report (Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression questionnaire). RESULTS: A considerable proportion of families had child maltreatment reports (30% of sample) and maternal depression (38% had clinically significant symptoms). Most maltreatment was neglect. Among control group mothers, reports of maltreatment did not vary according to depressive symptoms. For HV mothers, probability of reports varied with levels of depressive symptoms. Nonsymptomatic HV mothers were less likely to have a child who was reported for maltreatment compared with HV mothers who endorsed clinical levels of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms in this sample, and the link between depression and child maltreatment prevention program effectiveness, suggest that home visitors be alert to maternal depression. Programs also should be aware of possible surveillance effects related to maternal depression.

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Child maltreatment prevention: a systematic review of reviews

Cited by 413 publications

References 42 publications

Restoring paradise in the Caribbean: combatting violence with numbers

Restoring paradise in the Caribbean: combatting violence with numbers

Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

Limiting Home Visiting Effects: Maternal Depression as a Moderator of Child Maltreatment

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