Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Published in Journal of the American Medical Association. Here is a link to the article.

Regenstrief Institute author: Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH.

Child maltreatment has serious long-term effects, but its true prevalence in the US is likely underestimated. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed evidence on primary care behavioral counseling interventions aimed at preventing maltreatment in children and adolescents without current signs or exposure. The USPSTF found insufficient evidence to determine whether these interventions provide more benefits than harms and therefore issued an “I statement,” indicating that more research is needed to guide prevention efforts in primary care.

Authors
US Preventive Services Task Force; Michael J Barry ¹, Wanda K Nicholson ², Michael Silverstein ³, David Chelmow ⁴, Tumaini Rucker Coker ⁵, Esa M Davis ⁶, Carlos Roberto Jaén ⁷, M Tonette Krousel-Wood ⁸, Sei Lee ⁹, Li Li ¹⁰, Goutham Rao ¹¹, John M Ruiz ¹², James J Stevermer ¹³, Joel Tsevat ⁷, Sandra Millon Underwood ¹⁴, Sarah Wiehe ¹⁵

Affiliations

¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
²George Washington University, Washington, DC.
³Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁴Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
⁵University of Washington, Seattle.
⁶University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
⁷University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
⁸Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
⁹University of California, San Francisco.
¹⁰University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
¹¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
¹²University of Arizona, Tucson.
¹³University of Missouri, Columbia.
¹⁴University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
¹⁵Indiana University, Bloomington.1Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.