Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort.

Deirdre Gartland; Laura J Conway; Rebecca Giallo; Fiona K Mensah; Fallon Cook; Kelsey Hegarty; Helen Herrman; Jan Nicholson; Sheena Reilly; Harriet Hiscock; Emma Sciberras; Stephanie J Brown

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Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort.

Deirdre Gartland, Laura J Conway, Rebecca Giallo, Fiona K Mensah, Fallon Cook, Kelsey Hegarty, Helen Herrman, Jan Nicholson, Sheena Reilly, Harriet Hiscock, Emma Sciberras, Stephanie J Brown

Arch Dis Child | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320321

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Assess the mental health, physical health, cognitive and language development of 10-year old children in families where mothers have reported intimate partner violence (IPV) compared with children with no reported IPV exposure. DESIGN: Prospective pregnancy cohort. Maternal report of IPV (Composite Abuse Scale) at 1, 4 and 10 years. Maternal and direct assessment of child mental health (probable psychiatric diagnosis, anxiety and emotional/behavioural difficulties), cognition (IQ and executive function), language (general, pragmatic and receptive) and physical health at 10 years. SETTING: A subsample of 615 mother-child dyads drawn from a pregnancy cohort of 1507 nulliparous women..

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