TABLE 2.
Health care professional and nonhealth care professional reports of various maltreatment investigations of the 1998 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child abuse and Neglect (CIS) and CIS-2003 (core sample), and their relative changes from 1998 to 2003
| Type of maltreatment |
All groups |
Health care professional reports |
Nonhealth care professonal reports |
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Number of reports |
Number of reports (%) |
Standardized relative change |
Number of reports (%) |
Standardized relative change |
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| CIS-1998 | CIS-2003 | CIS-1998 | CIS-2003 | % | Adjusted CI, % | CIS-1998 | CIS-2003 | % | Adjusted CI, % | |
| All maltreatment investigations | ||||||||||
| All investigations | 5363 | 11,562 | 473 (9) | 1141 (10) | 12 | 1 to 24* | 2670 (50) | 6608 (57) | 15 | 11 to 18*** |
| Primary form | ||||||||||
| Physical abuse | 1823 | 3,049 | 152 (8) | 294 (10) | 16 | −4 to 39 | 1032 (57) | 1974 (65) | 14 | 9 to 20*** |
| Sexual abuse | 528 | 655 | 57 (11) | 72 (11) | 2 | −27 to 41 | 240 (45) | 329 (50) | 11 | −2 to 25 |
| Neglect | 2042 | 4034 | 183 (9) | 483 (12) | 34 | 14 to 57*** | 865 (42) | 1848 (46) | 8 | 2 to 15* |
| Emotional maltreatment | 436 | 1704 | 51 (12) | 205 (12) | 3 | −23 to 37 | 180 (41) | 811 (48) | 15 | 2 to 30* |
| Exposure to domestic violence | 534 | 2120 | 30 (6) | 87 (4) | −27 | −51 to 9 | 353 (66) | 1646 (78) | 17 | 10 to 25 |
| Substantiated maltreatment | ||||||||||
| All maltreatment | 2150 | 5660 | 186 (9) | 531 (9) | 8 | −8 to 27 | 1165 (54) | 3611 (64) | 18 | 13 to 23*** |
| Primary form | ||||||||||
| Physical abuse | 631 | 1286 | 53 (8) | 117 (9) | 8 | −21 to 48 | 388 (61) | 874 (68) | 11 | 3 to 19** |
| Sexual abuse | 155 | 153 | 18 (12) | 21 (14) | 18 | −34 to 113 | 71 (46) | 75 (49) | 7 | −15 to 35 |
| Neglect | 804 | 1775 | 78 (10) | 218 (12) | 27 | −1 to 62 | 361 (45) | 910 (51) | 14 | 4 to 25** |
| Emotional maltreatment | 198 | 850 | 15 (8) | 113 (13) | 75 | 5 to 194* | 88 (44) | 458 (54) | 21 | 3 to 43* |
| Exposure to domestic violence | 365 | 1596 | 22 (6) | 62 (4) | −36 | −60 to 3 | 257 (70) | 1294 (81) | 15 | 7 to 24 |
“All groups” include referrals from health care professionals, nonhealth care professionals and other informants. “Standardized relative change” measures the increase from CIS-1998 to CIS-2003 in the number of reports for each professional group, with respect to the increase in the total number of reports for all groups.
*
P<0.05;
**
P<0.01;
***
P<0.001