TABLE 3.
Maltreatment investigations with physical harm among different types of maltreatment investigations: a comparison between health care professional reports and nonhealth care professional reports; The 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child abuse and Neglect (core sample)
| Maltreatment type |
Investigations from professional reports, n |
Maltreatment investigations with physical harm, n (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care | Nonhealth care | Health care professional reports | Nonhealth care professional reports | |
| All maltreatment investigations | ||||
| All investigations | 1141 | 6608 | 171 (15) | 499 (8)* |
| Primary form | ||||
| Physical abuse | 294 | 1974 | 76 (26) | 328 (17)* |
| Neglect | 483 | 1848 | 70 (14) | 83 (4)* |
| Substantiated maltreatment | ||||
| All maltreatment | 531 | 3611 | 120 (23) | 380 (11)* |
| Primary form | ||||
| Physical abuse | 117 | 874 | 47 (40) | 243 (28)* |
| Neglect | 218 | 910 | 57 (26) | 63 (7)* |
*
Statistically significant (P<0.05)