Prevention of violence against children in the home: an overview of reviews protocol

Systematic Reviews

Protocol

Michelle Bass¹  Ana Salazar²  Dana McCoy³  Jorge Cuartas⁴  Hirokazu Yoshikawa⁵  Nicholas Metheny⁶  Felicia Knaul⁶ 

[1] Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA;Facultad de Educación, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia;Harvard Graduate School of Education, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA, USA;Harvard Graduate School of Education, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA, USA;Centro de Estudios sobre Seguridad y Drogas (CESED), Universidad de los Andes, Cra 1 Nº 18A- 12, Bogotá, Colombia;New York University Steinhardt & Global Ties for Children, New York, NY, USA;University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA;

关键词: Violence against children;    Child maltreatment;    Prevention;    Interventions;    Systematic review;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13643-022-02153-6

 received in 2022-05-20, accepted in 2022-12-05,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundViolence against children (VAC) in the home, or by household members, is a widespread problem with devastating and costly consequences for individuals and societies. In the past two decades, much research has been dedicated to the prevention of VAC in the home, in particular, in low- and- middle-income countries, but there are few systematic examinations of the growing body of literature. We present a protocol for an overview of reviews to synthesize the evidence from recent reviews on the effectiveness and characteristics of both universal and selective interventions to prevent VAC in the home or by household members.MethodsWe will conduct an overview of reviews of quantitative studies of universal and selective interventions to prevent VAC in the home published after 2000. Our outcomes will be VAC in the home (e.g., physical, sexual, or psychological violence or neglect) and drivers or direct risk factors for VAC (e.g., beliefs or attitudes towards VAC, parenting stress). We will search for reviews in multiple databases using controlled vocabularies and keywords. We will use the AMSTAR 2 to assess the quality of reviews and will extract information on outcomes, main results, and geographic distribution of primary studies, among other data. We will conduct a narrative synthesis of the findings.DiscussionThe proposed overview will provide timely evidence on effective strategies to prevent VAC in the home and will identify the key strengths and limitations of the current body of evidence on this topic. In doing so, we will inform future research, policy, and practice aimed at building effective strategies to prevent VAC globally.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42022304784.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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