TY - JOUR
T1 - Family needs checklist
T2 - development of a mobile application for parents with children to assess the risk for child maltreatment
AU - Rantanen, Heidi
AU - Nieminen, Irja
AU - Kaunonen, Marja
AU - Jouet, Emmanuelle
AU - Zabłocka-Żytka, Lidia
AU - Viganò, Giovanni
AU - Crocamo, Cristina
AU - Schecke, Henrike
AU - Zlatkute, Giedre
AU - Paavilainen, Eija
N1 - Funding: This research is part of the ERICA project funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014–2020). GA 856760.
PY - 2022/8/9
Y1 - 2022/8/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Child maltreatment
KW - Risk assessment
KW - Primary prevention
KW - Early identification
KW - Family
KW - Checklist
KW - e-health
KW - Mobile health
KW - Mobile application
KW - Digital health application
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85137125414
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19169810
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19169810
M3 - Article
SN - 1660-4601
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 16
M1 - 9810
ER -