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AUTHOR(S) Hyun Lee; EunKyung Kim
With the onset of COVID-19, most countries issued lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus globally and child abuse was concerned under such a closed circumstance. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of physical and psychological child abuse during COVID-19 and moderating variables for those abuses. The rates of child abuse reported in 10 studies encompassing 14,360 children were used, which were gathered through a systematic review.
AUTHOR(S) Keunhye Park; Bryan G. Victor; Brian E. Perron (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Rany Ekawati; Anisa Nur Rahma; Kartika Alifia (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Windi Chusniah Rachmawati; Endang Sri Redjeki; Hanifati Nadhilah
AUTHOR(S) Anne Coomans; David Kühling-Romero; Sjoukje van Deuren (et al.)
Insecurities and social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 restrictions, may have elevated tensions at home, consequently increasing the risk of domestic violence. The present study aims to examine changes in the prevalence, nature, and type of reporter of domestic violence following the various restrictions implemented to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the Netherlands. All official domestic violence reports recorded by the 26 Dutch domestic violence agencies in 2019 and 2020 were collected and analyzed. Time-series forecasting analyses, using a SARIMAX model, were conducted to predict the trend of domestic violence reports during the first lockdown and to compare the predicted trend with the observed trend.
AUTHOR(S) Beth Archer-Kuhn; Judith Hughes; Michael Saini (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) J. Bart Klika; Melissa T. Merrick; Jennifer Jones
AUTHOR(S) J. V. Appleton; S. Bekaert; J. Hucker (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Amiya Bhatia; Ellen Turner; Aggrey Akim (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Ilan Cerna-Turoff; Robert Nyakuwa; Ellen Turner (et al.)
An estimated 1.8 billion children live in countries where COVID-19 disrupted violence prevention and response. It is important to understand how government policies to contain COVID-19 impacted children’s ability to seek help, especially in contexts where there was limited formal help-seeking prior to the pandemic. This study aimed to quantify how the national lockdown in Zimbabwe affected helpline calls for violence against children, estimated the number of calls that would have been received had the lockdown not occurred and described characteristics of types of calls and callers before and after the national lockdown. It used an interrupted time series design to analyse the proportion of violence related calls (17,913 calls out of 57,050) to Childline Zimbabwe’s national child helpline between 2017 to 2021. It applied autoregressive integrated moving average regression (ARIMA) models to test possible changes in call trends before and after the March 2020 lockdown and forecasted how many calls would have been received in the absence of lockdown. In addition, it examined call characteristics before and after lockdown descriptively.
AUTHOR(S) Charlotte Proudman; Ffion Lloyd
This study aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women and children in the UK who were victims of domestic abuse. The authors draw from their experiences of working in the domestic abuse sector to reflect on the impact of lockdown restrictions on women and children, focussing on the impact of government restrictions that created an environment in which abusers could control the movement of victims.
AUTHOR(S) Matthew Reeson; Wanda Polzin; Hannah Pazderka (et al.)
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of early-life trauma that affects youth worldwide. In the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to investigate the potential impact of added stress on already vulnerable populations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a multimodal treatment program on mental health outcomes for youth CSA survivors aged 8–17. Secondary to this, we explored the potential impact of the COVID-19 on treatment outcomes. Participants of this study were children and youth aged 8–17 who were engaged in a complex multimodal treatment program specifically designed for youth CSA survivors. Participants were asked to complete self-report surveys at baseline and at the end of two subsequent treatment rounds. Surveys consisted of measures pertaining to: (1) PTSD, (2) depression, (3) anxiety, (4) quality of life, and (5) self-esteem.
AUTHOR(S) Ami Rokach; Sybil Chan
AUTHOR(S) Hayley Alderson; Simon Barrett; Michelle Addison (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Corinne A. Riddell; Kriszta Farkas; Krista Neumann (et al.)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unemployment, school closures, movement restrictions, and social isolation, all of which are child abuse risk factors. This study aimed to estimate the effect of COVID-19 shelter in place (SIP) policies on child abuse as captured by Google searches. It applied a differences-in-differences design to estimate the effect of SIP on child abuse search volume. It linked state-level SIP policies to outcome data from the Google Health Trends Application Programming Interface.
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