Citation

Monaghan SM, Gilmore RJ, Muir RC, Clarkson JE, Crooks TJ, Egan TG. Child Abuse Negl. 1986; 10(3): 369-375.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

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PMID

3742282

Abstract

This research revealed in Stage I the ability to identify during the prenatal period women at risk for possible child abuse and in Stage II an intervention program which when introduced resulted in fewer high-risk mothers relinquishing the care of their infants. The research had two main aims: to use the data from Stages I and II to reassess the criteria for identifying "at risk" mothers, and to develop a brief, easily administered screening questionnaire which could be standardized for widespread prenatal use; and to collect data on a random sample of prenatal patients, to use these data for confirming the validity and stability of the screening procedures, and to estimate the incidence of potentially high-risk mothers in an urban population.

Language: en