Publications by authors named "D T Colley"
Article Synopsis
- Child maltreatment (CM) includes various forms of abuse and neglect that lead to long-term negative outcomes, making early detection critical to preventing further harm to affected children.
- The systematic review aims to compile evidence on the effectiveness of tools used by different professionals for identifying suspected CM in children and adolescents.
- The methodology includes a comprehensive literature search and rigorous study quality assessment to ensure the reliability and relevance of the findings on these assessment tools.
Introduction: Child maltreatment (CM) is associated with adverse cognitive, behavioural, physical and social outcomes that often continue until adulthood. Systematic reviews on mediators and moderators of this relationship mostly investigate childhood adversities in general or only with regard to an adult population, single outcomes or single forms of maltreatment. The purpose of this review is to synthesise the evidence of variables that mediate and/or moderate the relationship between CM and diverse outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSchistosomiasis is a helminthiasis infecting approximately 250 million people worldwide. In 2001, the World Health Assembly (WHA) 54.19 resolution defined a new global strategy for control of schistosomiasis through preventive chemotherapy programmes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Over the past 20 years, schistosomiasis control has been scaled up. Preventive chemotherapy with praziquantel is the main intervention. We aimed to assess the effect of preventive chemotherapy on schistosomiasis prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa, comparing 2000-10 with 2011-14 and 2015-19.
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