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    Child abuse and neglect and mental health outcomes in adulthood by ethnicity: Findings from a 40-year longitudinal study in New Zealand/Aotearoa.
    (Elsevier B.V., 2023-11-01) Telfar S; McLeod GFH; Dhakal B; Henderson J; Tanveer S; Broad HET; Woolhouse W; Macfarlane S; Boden JM
    BACKGROUND: Longitudinal studies consistently report adverse long-term outcomes of childhood maltreatment. Little is known about the impact of childhood maltreatment on mental health among a marginalized population (New Zealand Māori); therefore, we cannot assume the effects of maltreatment are the same across the population. OBJECTIVE: Associations were examined between childhood sexual abuse (CSA), childhood physical punishment (CPP) and childhood neglect (CN) (<16 years) and mental health outcomes 18-40 years, by ethnicity (Māori/non-Māori). PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study, a study of a birth cohort of 1265 children born in Christchurch in 1977. By age 40, 17.8 % (n = 191) reported New Zealand Māori ethnic identity; 82.2 % (n = 883) were non-Māori. METHODS: CSA, CPP (<16 years) were measured at 18, 21 years; CN was measured at 40 years. Major depression, anxiety disorder, suicidal ideation, alcohol abuse/dependence and cannabis abuse/dependence were measured at ages 21, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years. Childhood confounding variables controlled. Analyses were extended to include Māori ethnicity. RESULTS: After statistical adjustment, experience of severe childhood maltreatment increased odds of mental health problems 1.8-2.6×, compared to no maltreatment; the effects of maltreatment were similar for males and females. For Māori, some higher rates of mental health problems were seen among those maltreated, no statistically significant associations were detected after Bonferroni correction (among severe maltreatment vs. no maltreatment). Limitations should be considered when interpreting results. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to childhood maltreatment has long-term effects into middle-age. Further research employing culturally-sensitive approaches may help clarify Māori childhood maltreatment outcomes.
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    Estimating child maltreatment cases that could be alcohol-attributable in New Zealand
    (John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for the Study of Addiction, 2023-04) Huckle T; Romeo JS
    Aims Children are an important group harmed by others' alcohol consumption. This study (1) compared the risk of occurrence of child maltreatment among children exposed versus not exposed to parents with an alcohol-attributable hospitalization or service use for mental health/addiction and (2) conducted sensitivity analyses to estimate the cases of child maltreatment that could be attributable to alcohol under two different conditions in New Zealand. Design A cohort study conducted among children 0−17 years and their parents (years 2000–2017) using the Statistics New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure. The New Zealand Health Survey 2017 was also used. Setting New Zealand. Participants 58 359 children aged 0–17 years and their parents. Measurements Survival analysis based on a Bayesian piecewise exponential model was used to estimate the risk of time to first substantiated child maltreatment event (identified from social service, hospital, mortality and police data) related to exposure to parents with an alcohol-attributable hospitalization or who used a mental health/addiction service (versus no exposure). Potential confounders were included for parents and children. The sensitivity analyses (i) estimated an alcohol-attributable admissions/service use fraction for maltreatment in 2017 and (ii) calculated a population-attributable fraction using the relative risk from the cohort and prevalence of hazardous drinking (AUDIT 8+) among parents in 2017. Findings There was a 65.1% [1.65; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.46−1.86] increased risk of child maltreatment if a child was exposed to parents who had an alcohol-attributable hospitalized or mental health/addictions service use. The sensitivity analyses estimated that in 2017 14.6% (CI = 14.0−15.3%) and 11.4% (95% CI = 8.4−14.3%) of the documented cases of child maltreatment in New Zealand could be attributable to parents with severe or hazardous consumption. Conclusions In New Zealand, exposure to parents with an alcohol-attributable hospitalization or service use is a risk factor for substantiated child maltreatment.