Study: 1.4M Children Annually Receive Medical Care for Violence_188体育app_188体育在线-平台官网

Robbin Ray ’82
Wed, 12 May 2021 14:15 -0400

A national report from UNH shows close to one and a half million children each year visit a doctor, emergency room or medical facility as a result of an assault, abuse, crime or other form of violence. This is four times higher than previous estimates based only on data from U.S. emergency rooms for violence-related treatment. “We should not be treating assaults as just a rite of passage for children.” In their study, recently published on JAMA Network Open, researchers from UNH’s Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) used survey information from a representative sample of 8,503 children and youth from across the country, ages two to 17 years, as part of a series of nationwide studies in 2011 and 2014. They found that while the majority of those needing medical attention for...