TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Considering child maltreatment in social inequalities of educational achievement: a whole-of-population data linkage study  [conference abstract]
JO  - International journal of epidemiology
A1  - Chittleborough, Catherine
A1  - Schuch, Helena
A1  - Pilkington, Rhiannon
A1  - Montgomerie, Alicia
A1  - Grant, Janet
A1  - Petersen, Julie
A1  - Lynch, John
SP  - dyab168.128
EP  - dyab168.128
VL  - 50
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - Strategies aimed at reducing health inequalities include a focus on improving education, a key determinant of health and labour market outcomes. Studies have demonstrated that both early life socioeconomic disadvantage and child maltreatment result in poorer educational outcomes, but have not examined the effect of the combination of these adversities.This study used de-identified, linked government administrative data from the South Australian Early Childhood Data Project on children born in South Australia who completed Year 5 National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) during 2008-2015 (n = 61,445), and their corresponding birth, perinatal, school enrolment and child protection system data.Overall, 23.7% (95% CI 23.4-24.1) had a poor NAPLAN outcome (at or below national minimum standard on three or more of the five domains - reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, numeracy). This proportion was approximately double for children who experienced substantiated maltreatment compared to children who did not experience contact with the child protection system, irrespective of the social circumstances (parental education, employment, housing and area-level disadvantage) in which the child lived.Social advantage is not sufficient to protect children from poor educational outcomes if they experience substantiated maltreatment. Interventions and services will need to focus on child maltreatment, in addition to socioeconomic factors, to improve educational outcomes in the population.Within each social group, from advantaged to disadvantaged children, the risk of poor NAPLAN outcomes was greater for children who had contact with the child protection system.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0300-5771
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.128
ID  - ref1
ER  -