A scale for home visiting nurses to identify risks of physical abuse and neglect among mothers with newborn infants

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 321-337

  Grietens, Hans ^a   Geeraert, Liesl ^a   Hellinckx, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Infancy; Neglect; Physical abuse; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD NEGLECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NURSE; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 1842611086     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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