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Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Filicide in Africa: a systematic review [2024]

• WHO African Region
  • Child Sexual Abuse: a Silent Health Emergency [2004]

Albania

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Prevalence of child maltreatment in Albania [2024]

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Regional Status Report 2020: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Children in the Americas [2020]
  • Violence against children

Australia

• ACT Government
  • Reporting child abuse: the law

• Australian Family Physician
  • Infant abusive head trauma - Incidence, outcomes and awareness [2012]

• Australian Institute of Family Studies
  • Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Child protection

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Problem sexual behaviours in children [2018]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • A decade of data: Trends in child protection system activity and expenditure in Australia between 2014-15 and 2023-24 [2026]
  • Applying a systems thinking lens to child sexual abuse in sport: an analysis of investigative report findings and recommendations [2025]
  • The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia [2024]
  • Child sexual abuse by different classes and types of perpetrator: Prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey [2024]

• Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Estimating burden of disease attributable to child maltreatment using findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study [2026]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • The Prevalence of Peer Sexual Harassment During Childhood in Australia [2024]

• Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Technology-Facilitated Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children Is Everyone's Problem; How Can Healthcare Practitioners Respond to the Second Global Pandemic of the 21st Century? A Narrative Review [2025]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • The prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia: findings from a national survey [2023]
  • The prevalence and nature of multi-type child maltreatment in Australia [2023]
  • The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS), a national survey of the prevalence of child maltreatment and its correlates: methodology [2023]

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Child abuse and neglect

• SA Health
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse. Perinatal care considerations

Bahrain

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Reported child sexual abuse in Bahrain: 2000-2009 [2011]

Bangladesh

• PLOS One
  • Prevalence and determinants of violent disciplinary practices for children in Bangladesh: Evidence from a nationally representative survey [2025]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Unraveling the reality of interpersonal violence against children and adolescents in Brazil: a systematic review [2025]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child sexual abuse among women in Brazil: Prevalence and associated factors in urban and rural settings [2026]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Professional practices in situations of child abuse: an integrative review [2023]

Canada

• BCGuidelines
  • The B.C. Handbook for Action on Child Abuse and Neglect: For Service Providers

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Medical neglect in Canada: a cross-sectional study exploring drivers of substantiation using a national dataset [2025]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Management of the paediatric patient with acute head trauma [2025]
  • Medical assessment of suspected traumatic head injury due to child maltreatment (THI-CM) [2024]
  • Medical neglect: Working with children, youth, and families [2022]
  • The medical evaluation of pre-pubertal children with suspected sexual abuse [2020]
  • The medical assessment of fractures in suspected child maltreatment: Infants and young children with skeletal injury [2018]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Prevalence of child maltreatment types in Canada [2026]

• CMAJ
  • Child abuse and mental disorders in Canada [2014]

• Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Child maltreatment in Canada, 2013 [2013]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Child maltreatment in Canada: prevalence and gender differences among youth [2026]
  • Is child sexual abuse declining in Canada? Results from nationally representative retrospective surveys [2016]
  • A review of recent analyses of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) [2015]
  • Child Maltreatment Surveillance Indicator Framework

Canada, United States

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Recruitment and Entrapment Pathways of Minors into Sex Trafficking in Canada and the United States: A Systematic Review [2023]

Chile

• Revista Médica de Chile
  • Prevalence and Associated Characteristics of Sexual Victimization of Chilean Children and Adolescents in a National Sample: An Update [2026]

China

• PLOS One
  • Reported prevalence of childhood maltreatment among Chinese college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

Croatia

• Croatian Medical Journal
  • Gender and age differences in prevalence and incidence of child sexual abuse in Croatia [2013]

Denmark

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Physical violence against children with disabilities: A Danish national birth cohort prospective study [2023]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Management of child maltreatment suspicions in general practice: a mixed methods study [2023]

East Africa

• PLOS One
  • Physical, psychological, sexual, and systemic abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa: Mapping the evidence [2017]

East Asia, Pacific

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The burden of child maltreatment in the East Asia and Pacific region [2015]

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Ending Violence against Children During Covid-19 and Beyond: Second Regional Conference to Strengthen Implementation of the INSPIRE Strategies, East Asia and the Pacific, Virtual Meeting, 1-5 November 2021: Meeting Report [2022]

Eastern and Southern Africa, South-East Asia

• Nature
  • Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia [2026]

Ecuador

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Comparison of Willingness to Pay to Prevent Child Maltreatment Deaths in Ecuador and the United States [2013]

Egypt

• PLOS One
  • Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation [2019]

Ethiopia

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Prevalence and long term mental health outcomes of child maltreatment in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

• Global Health Action
  • Multilevel correlates of childhood violence in refugee settings: findings from the Ethiopia humanitarian violence against children and youth survey [2026]

Europe

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on characteristics, extent, and trends in child maltreatment in 34 Euro-CAN COST Action Countries: a scoping review of the literature [2026]
  • A scoping review of participatory approaches in child maltreatment research across Europe [2025]
  • Prevalence of interpersonal violence against children in sport in six European countries [2023]

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Improving the recognition of child maltreatment in emergency departments in Europe: healthcare professionals' perceived barriers and facilitators for implementation of a comprehensive toolkit design [2026]

• European Society of Paediatric Radiology
  • ESR Essentials: imaging of suspected child abuse-practice recommendations by the European Society of Paediatric Radiology [2025]
  • Controversial aspects of imaging in child abuse: a second roundtable discussion from the ESPR child abuse taskforce [2023]

• PLOS One
  • Recognition of child maltreatment in emergency departments in Europe: Should we do better? [2021]

• WHO European Region
  • European regional status report on preventing violence against children 2020 [2021]
  • European status report on preventing child maltreatment [2018]
  • Measuring and monitoring national prevalence of child maltreatment: a practical handbook [2016]
  • Handbook on developing national action plans to prevent child maltreatment [2016]
  • Investing in children: the European child maltreatment prevention action plan 2015-2020 [2015]
  • Implementing child maltreatment prevention programmes: what the experts say [2015]
  • European report on preventing child maltreatment [2013]
  • The cycles of violence : the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the risk of later becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence : key facts [2007]
  • Preventing child maltreatment

Europe, United States

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Risk and safety of children and youth in child protection systems: A systematic review of risk assessment instruments [2026]

Finland

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Is Physical Intimate Partner Violence a Risk Factor for Physical Child Maltreatment in a Nationally Representative Sample of Finnish School Children? [2025]

France

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Lack of delivery of an infant crying plan to women who gave birth in France: frequency and determinants [2025]

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Incidence of child abuse with subdural hemorrhage during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study in France [2022]

• Haute Autorité de Santé
  • Child abuse: identification and action to be taken [2014]

• Sleep Health
  • Childhood sexual violence and sleep disturbances in adulthood: Findings from a large French population-based study (CONSTANCES) [2026]

Germany

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and prevention of violence against children and adolescents in volunteer work: analysis of a sub-sample from a representative survey of Germany [2025]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Public knowledge and action competencies regarding child maltreatment and child protection in Germany: Results from a representative national survey [2026]
  • Prevalence and risk factors for parental use of emotional punishment: Results from a subsample of parents in a German National Representative Study [2026]

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Trends in child maltreatment in Germany: comparison of two representative population-based studies [2018]

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Sexual Violence Against Children and Adolescents: A German Nationwide Representative Survey on Its Prevalence, Situational Context, and Consequences [2025]

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Trends in documenting and coding of child physical abuse in hospitalised children and adolescents in Germany: a nationwide administrative data analysis [2026]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Sex-dependent associations of childhood maltreatment with obesity-related traits: results from the German National Cohort (NAKO) [2026]

• RöFo
  • The German Evidence-Based Child Protection Guideline – Imaging in Suspected Child Abuse [2020]

Ghana

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The protective effects of the collective cultural value of abiriwatia against child neglect: Results from a nationally representative survey [2023]

• Ministry of Health Ghana
  • Child Protection Guidelines for Health Workers [2018]

Gulf Cooperation Council

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child maltreatment and protection in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A scoping review [2022]

Haiti

• International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
  • The relationship between commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among boys and girls in Haiti [2022]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Lifetime and Child Sexual Violence, Risk Factors and Mental Health Correlates Among a Nationally Representative Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults in Haiti: A Public Health Emergency [2023]

High-income countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Lucid interval in abusive head trauma: a systematic review [2026]
  • A systematic scoping review of indigenous-specific research evidence on child sexual abuse [2026]
  • The risk and protective factors, response to disclosure, and interventions for sibling sexual abuse: A systematic review [2025]
  • The impacts on paediatricians testifying in cases of child maltreatment: A systematic scoping review [2025]
  • Reinvolvement after returning home: A systematic review of the factors associated with post-reunification child protection involvement [2025]

• Child Maltreatment
  • Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies [2023]

• JAMA
  • Has This Child Experienced Physical Abuse?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review [2025]

• Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Profiling the Invisible: A Scoping Review of Characteristics and Detection of Live-Streaming Child Sexual Abuse Offenders [2026]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • The Prevalence and Correlates of Child Sexual Offending Behaviours and Attitudes Among Men in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Study Methodology [2026]
  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Prevalence and Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration in Australia, the United States, and United Kingdom [2026]
  • Identifying the Demographic and Internet Use Characteristics of Technology-Facilitated Child Sex Offenders Operating in the Australian, U.S. and U.K. General Population [2026]

• Sexual Abuse
  • Distinguishing Pedohebephebophilic Actors and Non-Actors: A Meta-Analysis [2026]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • From Care to Corrections: A Scoping Review of Pathways from Child Protection to Adult Criminal Justice Systems [2025]
  • The Effectiveness of Psychological Treatment in Adult Male Convicted for Sexual Offenses Against Children: A Systematic Review [2023]
  • Kinship Care and Child Protection in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review [2023]

Hong Kong

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of Child Maltreatment and Its Association with Parenting Style: A Population Study in Hong Kong [2019]

• Social Welfare Department
  • Protecting Children from Maltreatment - Procedural Guide for Multi-disciplinary Co-operation [2020]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • Ethical and definitional considerations in research on child sexual violence in India [2018]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Recommendations on recognition and response to child abuse and neglect in the Indian setting [2010]

• Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
  • A comprehensive approach to child sexual abuse: Insights for dermatologists [2026]

• Indian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for Child Sexual Abuse [2019]

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Child Sexual Abuse: Management and Prevention, and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act [2017]

Indonesia

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
  • Risk and Protective Factors for Child Sexual Abuse in Indonesia: Cross-sectional Findings From the 2024 National Survey on Child and Adolescent Life Experiences (SNPHAR 2024) [2026]

International

• Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Depression [2025]

• Annals of Medicine
  • Epidemiological status and developmental trends of sexual violence among children and adolescents aged 0-19 years: a global analysis and projections [2026]

• Biological Psychiatry
  • Childhood Maltreatment and Deviations From Normative Brain Structure: A Mega-Analysis of 3711 Individuals From the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder and ENIGMA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Groups [2026]

• BMC Oral Health
  • Factors that inhibit reporting of child maltreatment among dental health personnel - a scoping review [2025]

• BMC Psychiatry
  • The impact of adverse childhood experiences in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in adults over 18 years of age: a systematic review [2025]

• BMC Public Health
  • Priorities for research in child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and resilience to violence exposures: results of an international Delphi consensus development process [2012]

• BMJ Open
  • Screening tools used by paediatric healthcare providers to identify child maltreatment by parents or caregivers: a systematic review [2025]
  • Asking youth and adults about child maltreatment: a review of government surveys [2022]

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Mapping the global prevalence and socioecological drivers of child sexual abuse: a systematic review and synthesis [2026]

• British Journal of Hospital Medicine
  • Assessing Global, Regional, and National Burden of Depressive Disorder Attributable to Childhood Sexual Abuse and Bullying Victimization From 1990 to 2021: A Study on Individuals Aged 10-24 Years [2026]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic [2021]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Treatments for child neglect: A scoping review [2025]
  • Maltreatment and executive functioning in childhood and adolescence - A multilevel meta-analysis [2025]
  • Cost effectiveness of interventions to prevent the occurrence and the associated economic impacts of child maltreatment: A systematic review [2025]
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of medical and psychosocial care procedures for children and adolescents after (online) sexual abuse [2025]
  • Childhood maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescent population: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • The prevalences, changes, and related factors of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review [2023]
  • International guidelines for the prevention of sexual violence: A systematic review and perspective of WHO, UN Women, UNESCO, and UNICEF's publications [2023]
  • Global prevalence of physical and psychological child abuse during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • From parental issues of job and finance to child well-being and maltreatment: A systematic review of the pandemic-related spillover effect [2023]
  • A mapping of parenting support policies worldwide to prevent violence against children [2023]

• Child Maltreatment
  • Public Knowledge and Attitudes About the Nature and Impact of Child Emotional Abuse: A Systematic Review [2026]
  • The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis [2024]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Interventions to prevent sexual abuse of children and adolescents in school environments: scientific evidence [2026]

• European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Childhood emotional maltreatment and trauma-related outcomes: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis [2026]

• European Radiology
  • Post-mortem imaging in suspected child physical abuse: a systematic review [2026]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Challenges faced by parents in preventing online child sexual exploitation and abuse: a mixed methods systematic review [2026]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Child Maltreatment Reporting Practices by a Person Most Knowledgeable for Children and Youth: A Rapid Scoping Review [2022]

• International Wound Journal
  • Prevalence of non-accidental burns and related factors in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Demographic and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Child Sexual Exploitation [2020]

• JAMA Pediatrics
  • Global Prevalence of Sexual Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]

• Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The association between childhood maltreatment and clinical features of depressive, anxiety, and stress-related disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]
  • Maternal childhood maltreatment and perinatal outcomes: A systematic review [2022]

• Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Forensic Psychological Assessment in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse: A Scoping Review [2026]

• Journal of Public Health
  • Is parental unemployment associated with increased risk of adverse childhood experiences? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews
  • Identifying Risk Factors of Children Who Suffered Physical Abuse: A Systematic Review [2025]

• Lancet
  • Prevalence of sexual violence against children and age at first exposure: a global analysis by location, age, and sex (1990-2023) [2025]

• Nature Human Behaviour
  • A systematic review of the global and regional estimates of the prevalence of sexual violence against children [2026]
  • Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study [2025]

• Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Childhood maltreatment as a predictor of substance use/misuse among youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Pediatric Radiology
  • Pediatric abusive spine trauma: a review of whole-spine imaging essentials [2026]

• PLOS One
  • Improving measurement of child abuse and neglect: A systematic review and analysis of national prevalence studies [2020]

• Psychological Medicine
  • Child maltreatment and resilience in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
  • Healthcare services in the intersectoral coping of domestic violence against children: a scoping review [2025]

• Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
  • Barriers to the prevention of violence against children identified by healthcare professionals: a scoping review [2026]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Adverse childhood experiences and loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Torture
  • Children who survive torture: A systematic review of screening, documentation and treatment of torture injuries in children [2024]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Which Factors in a Child Welfare Worker's Environment Influence Their Decision-Making About Neglect? A Systematic Narrative Literature Review [2026]
  • Unpacking Parenting Intervention Content for Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review Examining Core Components [2026]
  • Intergenerational Cycles of Maltreatment: An Updated Scoping Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors [2026]
  • Male Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: A Review [2025]
  • Economic Evaluation of Prevention Interventions for Child Sexual Exploitation or Child Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review [2025]
  • Victims of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse: A Scoping Review [2024]
  • Global Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Physical Violence within Domestic and Family Relationships in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Proportional Meta-Analysis [2024]
  • COVID-19 and Caregiver Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment: The Pandemic in Review [2024]
  • The Impact of Childhood Psychological Maltreatment on Mental Health Outcomes in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Child Maltreatment During COVID-19: Key Conclusions and Future Directions Based on a Systematic Literature Review [2023]
  • Characteristics of Sexual Homicide Offenders Focusing on Child Victims: A Review of the Literature [2023]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • International Classification of Violence against Children (ICVAC) [2023]
  • Violence Against Children

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • End Violence Against Children

Ireland

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • Report of the investigation into the management of allegations of child sexual abuse against adults of concern by the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) upon the direction of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs [2018]
  • Guidance on an investigation into the management of allegations of child sexual abuse [2017]

• Tusla - Child and Family Agency
  • Child Protection & Welfare

Italy

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Associations between child physical abuse potential, work-related burnout, mental health and executive functions in Italian professionals working with children and youth: A preliminary study [2025]

Kenya

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Children's Vulnerability to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 in Kenya: Recommendations for the Future [2021]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Postrape care services to minors in Kenya: are the services healing or hurting survivors? [2016]

• Ministry of Health Kenya
  • National Standard Operating Procedures for Management of Sexual Violence Against Children [2018]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Sexualised violence against children: a review of laws and policies in Kenya [2019]

Latin America

• Child's Nervous System
  • Abusive head trauma in children under 2 years of age in Latin America: a systematic review [2026]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• BMC Public Health
  • Violence against children in Latin America and Caribbean countries: a comprehensive review of national health sector efforts in prevention and response [2016]

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Violence against Children and Adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean: New data and solutions [2026]

Low and middle income countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The effectiveness of parenting interventions in reducing violence against children in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • Prevalence of childhood exposure to domestic violence in 10 low- and middle-income countries: Analysis of Violence Against Children and Youth Survey data [2025]

Mongolia

• Global Health Action
  • Prevalence and factors of physical punishment and psychological aggression toward children under five in Mongolia: an analysis of the 2018 Social Indicator Survey [2024]

Netherlands

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Prevalence of child maltreatment in the Netherlands: An update and cross-time comparison [2020]

• Public Health
  • Does child abuse predict a population segment with large economic burden? [2024]

New Zealand

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Prevalence of Maltreatment: Evidence From a New Zealand Birth Cohort [2019]

• Starship
  • Abuse and Neglect

Nigeria

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Child Sexual Abuse in Nigeria: A Systematic Review [2024]

Norway

• Child Maltreatment
  • Children's Elaboration of Forensically Relevant Information in Response to Invitations: A National Study of Investigative Interviews With Preschool-Aged Abuse Victims [2026]

OECD countries

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Changes in child maltreatment occurrence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review [2025]

Oman

• Ministry of Health Oman
  • Clinical Guidelines of Child Abuse and Neglect

• Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
  • Child Rights: What can we do in Oman? [2012]

Peru

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Physical punishment and effective verbal communication in children aged 9-36 months, according to sex: secondary analysis of a national survey [2024]

Portugal

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Bridging Guidelines and Practice: Questioning Styles in Judicial Interviews with Child Sexual Abuse Victims in Portugal [2026]

Rwanda

• BMC Public Health
  • Predictors of physical violence against children in Rwanda: findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey [2022]

• PLOS One
  • Correlates of emotional violence against children in Rwanda: Findings from a cross-sectional national survey [2023]

Saudi Arabia

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect in Saudi Arabia: Are We Ready? [2011]

Singapore

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Adverse childhood experiences and positive psychotic symptoms: A nationally representative study in Singapore [2022]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Management of child abuse [2013]

South Africa

• Lancet Global Health
  • Sexual violence against children in South Africa: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of prevalence and correlates [2018]

• South African Family Practice
  • A brief overview of managing prepubertal children who have experienced sexual abuse [2026]

South-East Asia

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Child sexual exploitation and abuse: considerations of cultural differences in policy and legislation [2026]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • National Guideline for the Management of Child Abuse and Neglect [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Trends and demographic differences in interpersonal violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from the 1990-2019 Global Burden of Disease Study [2025]

• PLOS One
  • What do we know about how children and adolescents conceptualise violence? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies from sub-Saharan Africa [2024]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Violence Against Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review of Literature on the Victim-Perpetrator Relationship [2025]

Sweden

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Child physical abuse, declining trend in prevalence over 10 years in Sweden [2020]

• Implementation Science
  • Transfer of knowledge to diagnose infant abuse and its incidence - a time-series analysis from Sweden [2022]

• Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Facing suspected child abuse – what keeps Swedish general practitioners from reporting to child protective services? [2015]

• Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
  • Primary care interventions provided to families where children have been subjected to abuse and neglect [2018]

Switzerland

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Mobilizing agencies for incidence surveys on child maltreatment: successful participation in Switzerland and lessons learned [2018]

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Nurses' and physicians' reported difficulties and enablers to recognising and reporting child abuse in Swiss paediatric emergency and paediatric surgery departments - an observational study [2023]

Tanzania

• WHO African Region
  • Policy Brief- Tanzania's Parenting interventions [2024]

United Arab Emirates

• European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
  • Assessment of the knowledge of United Arab Emirates dentists of Child Maltreatment, protection and safeguarding [2018]

United Kingdom

• Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Rate and severity of radiological features of physical abuse in children during the first UK-wide COVID-19 enforced national lockdown [2022]

• BMC Psychiatry
  • Associations between developmental timing of child abuse and conduct problem trajectories in a UK birth cohort [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Comparative relationships between physical and verbal abuse of children, life course mental well-being and trends in exposure: a multi-study secondary analysis of cross-sectional surveys in England and Wales [2025]
  • Exploration of trends in the incidence and prevalence of childhood maltreatment and domestic abuse recording in UK primary care: a retrospective cohort study using ‘the health improvement network’ database [2020]

• British Psychological Society
  • Guidance on responding to disclosures of non-recent (historic) child sexual abuse: Safeguarding and support implications [2023]

• British Society of Paediatric Dentistry
  • British Society of Paediatric Dentistry: A policy document on dental neglect in children [2024]

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • The economic burden of child maltreatment and co-occurring parental domestic violence and abuse in the UK [2025]
  • Defining paediatric abusive head trauma using routinely collected patient datasets: Scoping review and testing in a UK cohort [2025]
  • Prevalence of violence against children in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Improving professional practice in the investigation and management of intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Qualitative analysis of serious child protection reviews [2023]

• Crown Prosecution Service
  • Child Abuse (non-sexual)

• Department for Education
  • Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Helping school nurses to tackle child sexual exploitation

• Depression and Anxiety
  • Protecting the Protectors: Moral Injury, Coping Styles, and Mental Health of UK Police Officers and Staff Investigating Child Sexual Abuse Material [2024]

• Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Family Group Conferences as an alternative to Initial Child Protection Conferences for families on the Child Protection pathway: Synopsis [2026]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s [2025]
  • 2024 exceptional surveillance of child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (NICE guideline CG89) [2024]
  • Child abuse and neglect [2019]
  • Child abuse and neglect guidance

• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • Keeping children safe
  • Child abuse and neglect

• NHS England
  • Paediatric forensic healthcare practitioner capabilities framework for child sexual abuse assessment [2023]

• Public Health Scotland
  • Ending childhood adversity: A public health approach [2020]

• Right Decisions
  • Child Protection

• Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Abusive head trauma and the eye in infants and children - clinical guideline update by the royal college of ophthalmologists and the royal college of paediatrics and child health: executive summary [2024]

• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Child protection and safeguarding

• Royal College of Radiologists
  • The radiological investigation of suspected physical abuse in children [2017]

• Scottish Government
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 3: rapid review of legislation and policy [2018]
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 2: rapid review of intervention literature [2018]
  • Tackling child neglect in Scotland 1: follow-up survey 2016 [2018]
  • National action plan to tackle child sexual exploitation: progress report 2016-2017 [2017]
  • Child protection guidance

• Sentencing Council
  • Cruelty to a child – assault and ill treatment, abandonment, neglect, and failure to protect

• UK Parliament
  • Duties to report child abuse in England [2026]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2024]
  • Behavioral Interventions and Counseling to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect [2013]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Systems-Based Care of the Injured Child: Technical Report [2025]
  • Systems-Based Care of the Injured Child: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Human Trafficking and Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Evaluating Young Children With Fractures for Child Abuse: Clinical Report [2025]
  • Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children: Technical Report [2025]
  • The Pediatrician’s Role in Preventing Child Maltreatment: Clinical Report [2024]
  • Protecting Children and Condemning Hate During a Time of War [2024]
  • Oral and Dental Aspects of Child Abuse and Neglect: Clinical Report [2024]
  • Child Fatality Review [2024]
  • Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse by Health Care Professionals and in the Health Care Setting [2022]
  • Exploitation, Labor and Sex Trafficking of Children and Adolescents: Health Care Needs of Patients [2022]
  • Evaluation for Bleeding Disorders in Suspected Child Abuse [2022]
  • Evaluating for Suspected Child Abuse: Conditions That Predispose to Bleeding [2022]
  • Maltreatment of Children With Disabilities [2021]
  • Runaway Youth: Caring for the Nation’s Largest Segment of Missing Children [2020]
  • Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication [2020]
  • Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children [2020]
  • Ongoing Pediatric Health Care for the Child Who Has Been Maltreated [2019]
  • Identifying Child Abuse Fatalities During Infancy [2019]
  • The Eye Examination in the Evaluation of Child Abuse [2018]
  • Global Human Trafficking and Child Victimization [2017]
  • Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment [2017]
  • Virtual Violence [2016]
  • The Evaluation of Suspected Child Physical Abuse [2015]
  • Child Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Health Care Needs of Victims [2015]
  • Evaluating Children With Fractures for Child Physical Abuse [2014]
  • The Evaluation of Children in the Primary Care Setting When Sexual Abuse Is Suspected [2013]
  • Caregiver-Fabricated Illness in a Child: A Manifestation of Child Maltreatment [2013]
  • Psychological Maltreatment [2012]
  • Child Abuse, Confidentiality, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [2010]
  • Child Abuse and Neglect

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Human Trafficking [2019]
  • Adult Manifestations of Childhood Sexual Abuse [2011]

• American College of Radiology
  • Suspected Physical Abuse-Child

• American Family Physician
  • Child Abuse: Approach and Management [2022]

• American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Comparison of trends in CPS reports of child maltreatment and child maltreatment-related mortality across time, place and race/ethnicity [2026]

• American Psychological Association
  • APA Guidelines for Psychological Evaluations in Child Protection Matters [2024]

• Annual Review of Public Health
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): What Have We Learned and What's Next? [2026]

• Association of Professionals Solving the Abuse of Children
  • Practice Guidelines

• BMC Public Health
  • Describing associations between child maltreatment frequency and the frequency and timing of subsequent delinquent or criminal behaviors across development: variation by sex, sexual orientation, and race [2019]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2011–2020 [2023]
  • Sexual Assault or Abuse of Children - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]
  • Trends in U.S. Emergency Department Visits Related to Suspected or Confirmed Child Abuse and Neglect Among Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, January 2019–September 2020 [2020]
  • Vital Signs: Estimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Prevention — 25 States, 2015–2017 [2019]
  • Child Abuse and Neglect

• Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Use of research evidence in U.S. state child abuse and neglect policies: 2019-2024 [2026]
  • Testing for bleeding disorders in child abuse: AAP recommendation adherence and testing results [2025]
  • Parent-teen concordance of selected adverse childhood experiences in a national sample of teenagers: Findings from National Health Interview Survey - Teen [2025]
  • Homeschooling and child maltreatment: A review of the regulatory context and research evidence in the United States [2025]

• Child Maltreatment
  • State Policy Levers for Reducing Early Childhood Maltreatment: The Importance of Family Planning and Economic Support Policies [2025]
  • Evidence-Based Home Visiting Provisions and Child Maltreatment Report Rates: County-Level Analysis of US National Data From 2016 to 2018 [2024]

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • Safety and Risk

• Hospital Pediatrics
  • Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment Fatalities in a National Pediatric Inpatient Database [2020]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Prevalence of Online Sexual Offenses Against Children in the US [2022]

• Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Community Food Insecurity and Child Maltreatment Reports: County-Level Analysis of U.S. National Data From 2009 to 2018 [2023]

• Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Trends and forecasted rates of adverse childhood experiences among adults in the United States: an analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [2023]

• Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
  • Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused [2016]

• Lancet Public Health
  • Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study [2023]

• Pediatric Emergency Care
  • National Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Child Maltreatment, 2007-2014 [2022]

• Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
  • Combating human trafficking: pediatric surgeons as agents of change [2025]

• Society for Pediatric Radiology
  • The impact of the consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children [2021]

• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
  • Association of Housing Stress With Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review [2022]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Primary Care Interventions [2024]

• Violence and Victims
  • Violent Victimization During Childhood in the United States: Associations With Revictimization and Health [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Preventing violence against children: a social determinants framework for INSPIRE implementation [2025]
  • Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact [2025]
  • WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years: web annex: GRADE evidence profiles and evidence to decision tables [2023]
  • WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years [2023]
  • What works to prevent violence against children online? [2022]
  • What works to prevent online violence against children? executive summary [2022]
  • Violence against children online [2022]
  • Responding to child maltreatment: a clinical handbook for health professionals [2022]
  • Reporting on violence against children: a guide for journalists [2022]
  • INSPIRE: seven strategies for ending violence against children: uptake between 2016 and 2021 [2022]
  • Universal parenting support to prevent abuse and neglect: A policy call for national governments [2021]
  • Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020 [2020]
  • WHO Guidelines for the health sector response to child maltreatment [2019]
  • School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook [2019]
  • INSPIRE handbook: action for implementing the seven strategies for ending violence against children [2018]
  • Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused [2017]
  • Toolkit on mapping legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment [2015]
  • Improving efforts to prevent children’s exposure to violence: a handbook to support the evaluation of child maltreatment prevention programmes [2014]
  • Preventing violence: evaluating outcomes of parenting programmes [2013]
  • Preventing violence through the development of safe, stable and nurturing relationships between children and their parents and caregivers [2009]
  • Preventing violence by developing life skills in children and adolescents [2009]
  • Preventing child maltreatment : a guide to taking action and generating evidence [2006]
  • Violence against children: Fact sheet
  • Violence against children
  • Violence Info – Child maltreatment
  • Preventing violence against children
  • Online violence against children
  • Measuring and evaluating child maltreatment
  • Lifetime prevalence of child maltreatment (%)
  • Lifetime prevalence of child emotional abuse (%)
  • Extent of implementation of child protection services
  • Child maltreatment: Fact sheet
  • Child maltreatment: Extent of implementation of home-visiting programmes
  • Caring for child victims of violence

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Preventing violence against children 2020: status report for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region [2021]

WHO South-East Asia Region

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Preventing violence against children 2020: report for the WHO South-East Asia Region [2021]
  • Managing child abuse : a handbook of medical officer [2004]

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Child maltreatment [2016]
  • Ending violence against children

Zimbabwe

• BMC Public Health
  • National COVID-19 lockdown and trends in help-seeking for violence against children in Zimbabwe: an interrupted time-series analysis [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Exploring children's formal help-seeking behaviour for violence in Zimbabwe: analysis of national survey and routine service provider data [2023]

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