TABLE 6.
Placement among all maltreatment investigations and substantiated 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)
| Placement |
Maltreatment investigations with child functioning issues |
|
|---|---|---|
| Health care professional reports | Nonhealth care professional reports | |
| Total maltreatment investigations, n | 1141 | 6608 |
| Total substantiated maltreatment, n | 531 | 3611 |
| All maltreatment investigations, n (%) | ||
| Out-of-home placement | 136 (12) | 503 (8)* |
| Placement considered | 32 (3) | 136 (2) |
| Substantiated maltreatment, n (%) | ||
| Out-of-home placement | 115 (22) | 425 (12)* |
| Placement considered | 24 (5) | 113 (3) |
*
Statistically significant (P<0.05)