The US Department of Health and Human
Services, among many others, has identified child maltreatment as a
serious U.S. public health problem with substantial long-term
physical and psychological consequences. Despite considerable
qualitative research on the consequences of CM in adults, few
studies have utilized standardized HRQOL techniques and none have
quantified childhood HRQOL impacts. This gap in the literature
means the full burden of CM on HRQOL has not been measured,
inhibiting the evaluation of CM intervention programs and
comparisons to other public health issues. This exploratory
research study will improve public health knowledge and economic
evaluation of the HRQOL impacts of CM, including effects specific
to juvenile and adolescent victims, through the development and
fielding a preference-based survey instrument. CDC has developed an
exploratory survey instrument to quantify the HRQOL impacts of
child maltreatment following standardized HRQOL methods. The survey
was developed based on findings from a literature review of CM
outcomes, focus groups with adults who were CM victims, and expert
review of outcomes by clinician consultants who work with children
and/or adults who were victims of CM, or who are researchers in the
field of CM. The survey is designed to quantify two types of data.
The main objective is the HRQOL decrement attributable to CM,
measured as the difference in HRQOL scores by CM victimization
history. A secondary objective is a statistical evaluation of these
decrements, based on respondent preferences over a series of
comparisons that will be shown to survey respondents.
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