Publications by authors named "C R Chittleborough"
Mental health-related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole-of-population descriptive study.
Med J Aust
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to analyze mental health-related hospitalizations among adolescents aged 12-17 in South Australia in relation to their prior contact with the child protection system when they were younger (0-11 years).
- Using data from various linked administrative sources, the researchers highlight how the extent of contact with child protection services correlates with the likelihood of mental health hospitalizations.
- Results show that the rate of hospitalization for mental health issues increases significantly with each level of child protection contact, revealing a concerning trend where more severe interactions with child services are associated with higher hospitalization rates for mental health disorders.
Objective: Youth criminal justice systems are under growing pressure to reduce re-offending behavior and to support young people's health and developmental needs. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to synthesise evidence for 2 prominent community-based interventions for delinquent and antisocial behavior, namely, multisystemic therapy (MST) and functional family therapy (FFT).
Method: We searched Medline, PsycInfo, Scopus, Web of Science, and Social Services Abstracts for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies evaluating MST/FFT.
The social determinants of health (SDH) focus on the social, physical and economic factors that impact human health. Studies have revealed that animal guardians face a range of challenges in attaining positive welfare outcomes for their companion animals, which can be influenced by socioeconomic and environmental factors. Despite this, there is a lack of research specifically exploring the relationship between SDH and animal welfare outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Intergenerational welfare contact is a policy issue because of the personal and social costs of entrenched disadvantage; yet, few studies have quantified the burden associated with intergenerational welfare contact for health.
Objective: To examine the proportion of individuals who experienced intergenerational welfare contact and other welfare contact types and to estimate their cause-specific hospital burden.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study used a whole-of-population linked administrative dataset of individuals followed from birth to age 20 years using deidentified data from the Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data platform (Australian Government Centrelink [welfare payments], birth registration, perinatal birth records, and inpatient hospitalizations).
Background: Populations willing to participate in randomized trials may not correspond well to policy-relevant target populations. Evidence of effectiveness that is complementary to randomized trials may be obtained by combining the 'target trial' causal inference framework with whole-of-population linked administrative data.
Methods: We demonstrate this approach in an evaluation of the South Australian Family Home Visiting Program, a nurse home visiting programme targeting socially disadvantaged families.