MEASUREMENT OF CHILD MALTREATMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Open Access
- Author:
- Reid, Megan Nicole
- Area of Honors:
- Nursing
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Lorah D Dorn, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Lisa Ann Kitko, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- child maltreatment
surveys
questionnaires
interviews - Abstract:
- Purpose: To determine what instruments (questionnaires, scales, surveys, interviews) are being used to measure child maltreatment, to examine the psychometric properties reported on those instruments and to evaluate the potential use of those instruments by health care providers in the clinical setting. Methods: A systematic review was conducted across three databases including PubMed, PsycInfo and CINAHL with publication dates from January 1, 2012 to March 31, 2017. Search terms included ‘child abuse’, ‘surveys and questionnaires’, and ‘interviews’. Eight hundred and sixty seven articles were identified and screened for the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Eight hundred and thirteen articles were excluded resulting in 54 articles to analyze in the review. Results: Nineteen different instruments were identified in the 54 articles. More of the instruments measured child physical and sexual abuse and less of the instruments measured child emotional abuse and neglect. Thirty-eight of the articles reported psychometric properties on the instruments used in the article with internal consistency reliability being the most common reported property. Three instruments had potential for implementation into the clinical setting for use by health care providers. Discussion: There is a lack of instruments that are targeted at children populations and there are not enough articles that report the psychometric properties of the instruments that are used. The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire, the Conflict Tactics Scale Parent-Child Version and the Child Neglect Questionnaire are all instruments that could potentially be used by health care providers in the clinical setting.