Family needs checklist: development of a mobile application for parents with children to assess the risk for child maltreatment

Heidi Rantanen; Irja Nieminen; Marja Kaunonen; Emmanuelle Jouet; Lidia Zabłocka-Żytka; Giovanni Viganò; Cristina Crocamo; Henrike Schecke; Giedre Zlatkute; Eija Paavilainen

doi:10.3390/ijerph19169810

Family needs checklist: development of a mobile application for parents with children to assess the risk for child maltreatment

Heidi Rantanen^*, Irja Nieminen, Marja Kaunonen, Emmanuelle Jouet, Lidia Zabłocka-Żytka, Giovanni Viganò, Cristina Crocamo, Henrike Schecke, Giedre Zlatkute, Eija Paavilainen^*

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Abstract

Child maltreatment (CM) has been enormously studied. However, a preventive practice still requires comprehensive and effective instruments to assess the risks for CM in a family context. The aim of this study is to describe the development process of an evidence-based CM risk assessment instrument (Family Needs Checklist, FNC) for primary prevention online utilization. This article reports the development process of the checklist and its mobile application, consisting of a systematic literature review, identification of known risk factors using the content analysis method, and generation of the checklist, including a multidisciplinary group in the design and feedback. As a result, a comprehensive and compact checklist was developed to be used by parents or caregivers as a self-referral instrument with an option to be used with professionals as a basis for joint conversations. The FNC consists of parental, family-, and child-related risk factors. Based on the international evidence, the online application consists of knowledge about different CM types, information about risk factors and protective factors as well as recommendations and guidance to support services. The FNC is based on robust evidence on known risk factors causing CM in families. It can be used for primary prevention utilization in the general population.

Original language	English
Article number	9810
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	19
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169810
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2022

Keywords

Child maltreatment
Risk assessment
Primary prevention
Early identification
Family
Checklist
e-health
Mobile health
Mobile application
Digital health application

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Rantanen, H., Nieminen, I., Kaunonen, M., Jouet, E., Zabłocka-Żytka, L., Viganò, G., Crocamo, C., Schecke, H., Zlatkute, G., & Paavilainen, E. (2022). Family needs checklist: development of a mobile application for parents with children to assess the risk for child maltreatment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), Article 9810. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169810

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