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  • Child development
  • Public health
  • Social work

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  • Home visiting programs aim to support families and prevent child maltreatment.
  • Documented child maltreatment is a significant public health concern.
  • Understanding the impact of interventions like home visiting is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effect of home visiting programs on documented child maltreatment in the first two years of life.
  • To compare substantiated and unsubstantiated child maltreatment investigations between home visiting and non-home visiting families.
  • To explore potential surveillance bias in reporting.

Main Methods:

  • Quasi-experimental, matched comparison group study.
  • Compared 8,796 home visiting (HV) families with 8,796 non-HV families using Coarsened Exact Matching.
  • Utilized sequential logistic regression to analyze investigation and substantiation rates.

Main Results:

  • HV families had higher odds of child maltreatment investigations but lower odds of substantiated investigations.
  • No significant overall difference in substantiated investigations between HV and non-HV families over two years.
  • Highlighted the importance of considering both substantiated and unsubstantiated investigations.

Conclusions:

  • Home visiting may increase scrutiny, leading to more investigations, but also potentially improve outcomes, reducing substantiation.
  • Findings suggest surveillance bias may influence documented maltreatment rates.
  • Future research should differentiate between investigation types to accurately assess program effectiveness.