Pub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100221
Francois-Xavier Souchet , Bella Bourgeois , Subrat Kumar Panda , Daniel Munaaba , Caroline Parmet , Natcha Walai , Srida Tantaatipanit , Kanyapak Sukyu , Eva Notté , Isabella Lanza Turner , Kimberley Anderson
This article presents an in-depth analysis of children and young people's engagement in Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) influencing work over the past 10 years. The Lundy framework is used to examine child participation across its four components: space, voice, audience and influence. Data were gathered through a comprehensive desk review, 32 semi-structured interviews with young people and 5 interviews with adult facilitators who participated in influencing activities over the period 2013–2023. The findings indicate that while child and youth participation in influencing at local and subnational levels provided opportunities for meaningful participation, opportunities for engagement of children at national and international levels remained limited. The article provides evidence-based recommendations to enhance the inclusivity, safety and impact of future advocacy initiatives, and to promote meaningful child participation. Ultimately, it underscores the importance of integrating children's voices into decision-making processes to ensure systemic change and the sustainable protection of children's rights.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100218
Elekwachi Chimezie Lekwas , Peter Onyekwere Ebigbo , John Eze , Obi Ikechukwu , Doris Chinelo Eyisi
Background
Child abuse is a significant global public health issue, with a high prevalence in Southeast Nigeria. Developing and evaluating screening tools that are sensitive and specific to local conditions is critical.
Objective
The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the ICAST-Home in a sample of children who reside in Southeast Nigeria.
Method
Participants were 127 (53 boys and 74 girls) children drawn from two government secondary schools in Enugu South Local Government, Enugu State, Southeast, Nigeria. Participants ages ranged from 11 to 18 (M = 15.67; SD = 2.07). Participants were selected using a multi-stage sampling. Data was collected using a 36-item ICAST-Home version. Descriptive statistics, internal consistencies, independent t-tests and linear regression were used to analyse the data in SPSS version 25.
Results
The findings of the study reported a prevalence rate of 28.76 % for child abuse. The scale yielded a good α ranging from .70 to .92, except for sexual victimisation which had an α of 67. However, the KR20 reported a high internal consistency for the scales. There were significant gender differences in violence exposure and sexual victimisation. The study further showed that boys reported higher violence exposure, girls reported higher sexual victimisation and overall higher child abuse experiences. Older children reported higher psychological victimisation, physical victimisation, sexual victimisation, and overall child abuse experiences.
Conclusion
Findings of the variation in reliability across the different subscales point to possible cultural adaptations that should be done for the ICAST-Home for the Southeast region of Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100219
Cristal Lopez , Chelsea C. Okoro , Saloni Dangoria , Jeffrey I. Gold
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Pub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100216
Eric Anderson , James Alder , Jack Hardwicke
Background
The last few decades have seen increased alarm concerning the dangers of childhood rugby participation, mostly in relation to the well-known problems associated with brain trauma in the sport. There has, however, been little investigation concerning the psychological impact of injuries sustained during compulsory participation in rugby within British schools physical education (PE).
Objective
This research sought to explore experiences of rugby-induced injury as a result of compelled participation in schools PE.
Methods
Qualitative, in-depth interviews with 12 young adults aged 19 to 24 (ten men and two women) who were injured playing schools rugby in PE. All interviewees attest to having not wanting to participate in rugby, and therefore we define the injuries sustained as non-consensual. Interviews explored the cause, nature, and enduring psychological trauma related to these injury events.
Findings
The compulsory, and therefore non-consensual character of the rugby-induced injuries experienced by our participants compounded the harm beyond physical trauma. They reported that the mandatory participation in contact rugby within their school PE classes undermined their ability to cognitively frame their injuries as accidents. These injuries were more appropriately perceived as violations of their bodily autonomy. This perception led to enduring embitterment, as participants resented being forced into the sport. As adults, they have developed a deeper understanding of informed consent, further intensifying psychological impacts and anger towards those they deemed responsible for their injuries.
Conclusions
Findings add to the growing safeguarding concerns over the existence of contact rugby in the British PE curriculum and children's rights, within both educational and sport settings. Two relevant policy changes to protect children are strongly advocated; 1) a greater focus on processes of consent within PE, and 2) the removal of contact rugby from the curriculum on safeguarding grounds.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-29DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100215
Shelby L. Clark , Taylor Dowdy-Hazlett , Morgan Cooley , Courtney Rogers , Gilean Chikwati , Detario Yancey
Background
Youth exiting foster care face significant challenges in their transition to adulthood, yet few studies have explored the social supports that may help them navigate this period.
Objective
This study asked three research questions including: How do transition-age youth (TAY) (1) create and (2) maintain social connections; and (3) How do social connections support TAY in emerging adulthood? Participants and Setting: This study included 16 Transition-Age Youth (TAY), aged 18–25 years, who had recently left foster care or were receiving extended services in one Southeastern state.
Methods
Data were collected via semi-structured interviews and analyzed with thematic analysis.
Findings
Several key findings were identified. First, themes identified that: (1) TAY are self-driven to create and leverage social connections; (2) TAY build connections through formal support systems; and (3) TAY value peer-led connections, advocacy, and support. Second, themes explained that TAY maintained social support networks and included: (1) TAY navigate system barriers to maintain relationships with their family of origin; (2) TAY are motivated and purposeful in maintaining relationships; and (3) TAY maintain relationships that were formalized through their foster care experience. Third, themes suggested that formal and informal social supports are critical as: (1) Formal structures provide support that help TAY emerge into adulthood; and (2) A sense of belonging provides anchors and purpose for TAY.
Conclusion
TAY utilize various strengths and strategies to create and maintain social supports. Moreover, results demonstrate the importance of formal supports to assist TAY in emerging into adulthood.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-25DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100214
Beatrice Nyakwaka Ogutu
In Kenyan families, the pervasive issue of violence impacts everyone, though it disproportionately affects women and children. While family violence, encompassing both violence against children and intimate partner violence, is indeed preventable, the current intervention landscape is challenging. Traditional parenting programs in Kenya, while numerous and focused on improving general parenting skills and child outcomes through direct instruction and reflection, often have limited impact and fail to address the complex, intersecting forms of family violence and lack a gender transformative approach. Furthermore, many promising programmes in the region remain largely as NGO-led research or pilot projects, rarely reaching the scale necessary to benefit the vast number of families that need them. Despite their proven potential, widespread adaptation and implementation of these programs remains limited. While global adaptation and scaling frameworks, including the widely recognized INSPIRE framework, exist to guide governments and NGOs looking to scale evidence-based violence prevention programs, these frameworks often underplay the dynamic, real-world complexities inherent in achieving true, sustained scale-up. This paper documents the journey of Kenya's Positive Parenting Programme, detailing its evolution from an NGO-led initiative to a nationally adopted and budgeted intervention. It distills findings essential for successful program scaling, offering concrete guidance for governments and practitioners striving to institutionalize gender-transformative parenting programs within national systems. Success with scaling in Kenya required a departure from traditional scaling frameworks, underscoring the critical role of informed gender-based advocacy coupled with strong organizational capacity to leverage support from both government and donors alike.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100212
Sarah Elizabeth Neville , Joanna Wakia , John Hembling , Beth Bradford , Martin Kiandiko , Michael Ochieng , Edith Apiyo , Khadija Karama , Alividzah Kituku , Maureen Obuya , Missie Oindo , Wilson Ochuka , Indrani Saran , Margaret Lombe , Thomas M. Crea
Background
Living in residential care has been well documented as causing harm to children in some parts of the world, especially children with disabilities. However, very little empirical research has looked at the intersection of child disability and living in residential care in Kenya or elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Objective
To examine how the subjective well-being of children who reunified with family after living in residential care may vary by child disability status, as well as by other child characteristics such as orphanhood status.
Participants and Setting
Children aged 11 to 17 receiving services from an initiative that oversaw the reunification of children from residential care into families in three counties in Kenya.
Methods
We drew upon a cross-sectional household survey of N = 105 children and conducted multiple linear regressions with clustered errors that controlled control for child sex, age, and time since family reunification.
Findings
Children with disabilities, who comprised 13 % of the sample, had lower self-reported well-being in the domains of basic needs, leisure and freedom, and care and safety, and a larger decrease in life satisfaction after reunification, compared to children without disabilities.
Conclusion
Further research must examine reasons for this lower well-being, and policymakers should strengthen supports for children with disabilities who are reunifying with families after living in residential care.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100213
Junia Joffer , Maria Engström , Johanna Tell , Marie Golsäter , Eva Randell , Steven Lucas
Background
Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) is one of few evidence-based approaches to identify psychosocial problems and facilitate support to families within pediatric primary care. The Swedish version of SEEK, called BarnSäkert (“Child Safe”), is being evaluated as a complex intervention in the Swedish child health services (CHS) for children aged 0–6 years.
Objective
Assessment of parents’ views of the acceptability and efficacy of the BarnSäkert/SEEK model within the CHS in Sweden.
Participants and setting
Mothers and fathers (n = 353) whose children were enrolled in the CHS.
Methods
An anonymous web-based survey posed questions regarding how parents perceived BarnSäkert/SEEK and whether services had been offered, accessed or planned as a result. Efficacy was measured as parents’ reports of an improved life situation or having been helped by the model.
Results
Among parents who discussed their situation with the nurse, 80 % reported that it had helped, 24 % had received help that they otherwise would not have and 20 % that their situation had improved. Appropriateness of the model was scored at 91/100 by mothers and 86/100 by fathers. Logistic regression showed significantly higher odds ratios for efficacy measures and service uptake for parents who were younger, born outside of Sweden or had lower levels of education.
Conclusions
Parents reported that the model was highly acceptable and efficacious in meeting their psychosocial needs. The findings lend support for application of the BarnSäkert/SEEK model in the Swedish CHS as an equitable approach to address psychosocial problems in families with young children.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100211
Tom D. Kennedy, Brittany Plombon, Caroline Haskamp, Bianca Howard, Cammi Shoultz, Danielle Millen, David Detullio, Jennifer Davidtz
Human trafficking has garnered increasing attention and global awareness as a significant violation of fundamental human rights. This modern-day slavery is actively occurring both internationally and in our local communities. The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report outlines the extent and typical services allocated for survivors of human trafficking by country. Additionally, the report details the funding allocated toward prevention and services, as well as the annual efforts of each country's government to meet the minimum standards outlined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA, 2000). This study aimed to examine the chronological growth and decline of specific government efforts to combat human trafficking in countries across North, South, and Central America. Specifically, descriptive differences in trends and services were explored country by country, comparing the narratives provided in 2014 to those offered in the 2018 TIP report. The overall trends indicate that almost two-thirds of the governments of countries in the Americas have remained relatively unchanged in their efforts to comply with the minimum standards of the TVPA (TIP, 2014; TIP, 2018). Only three countries have consistently remained in the top tier (i.e., Canada, the United States of America, and Chile).
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Pub Date : 2025-07-12DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100210
Ashley L. Merianos , Madelyn J. Hill , Kayleigh A. Gregory , Sinem Toraman Turk , Matthew Lee Smith , E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens
Background
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events linked to poor health outcomes in childhood. While children are vulnerable to ACEs and tobacco smoke exposure (TSE), little is known about the association between ACEs and home TSE.
Objective
This study aimed to assess the association between ACEs and home TSE status among U.S. school-aged children.
Participants and setting
A secondary analysis of the 2020–2021 National Survey of Children's Health data, including 26,422 children 6–11 years old, was conducted.
Methods
ACEs were assessed cumulatively and based on type, including household-, community-, and financial-based ACEs. Home TSE status included no home TSE, defined as the child not living with smokers; home thirdhand smoke (THS) exposure only, defined as the child living with smokers who did not smoke indoors; and home secondhand smoke (SHS) and THS exposure, defined as the child living with smokers who smoked indoors. Weighted adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed.
Findings
Concerning the number of ACEs, 22.4 % of children experienced one ACE, 12.2 % experienced 2–3 ACEs, and 4.9 % experienced 4–10 ACEs. Children with one ACE (AOR = 1.59, 95 %CI = [1.26, 1.99]; AOR = 2.00, 95 %CI = [1.17, 3.41]), 2–3 ACEs (AOR = 2.62, 95 %CI = [1.98, 3.45]; AOR = 4.36, 95 %CI = [2.52, 7.56]), and 4–10 ACEs (AOR = 5.16, 95 %CI = [3.48, 7.65]; AOR = 9.71, 95 %CI = [4.74, 19.88]) had increased odds of home THS exposure only and home SHS + THS exposure, respectively, compared to children with zero ACEs. Household-, community-, and financial-based ACEs increased the odds of home THS exposure only and home SHS + THS exposure.
Conclusion
ACEs were associated with home TSE status in school-aged children.
童年不良经历（ace）是与儿童时期不良健康结果相关的创伤性事件。虽然儿童易患ace和烟草烟雾暴露（TSE），但对ace和家庭TSE之间的关系知之甚少。目的本研究旨在评估美国学龄儿童ace与家庭TSE状况之间的关系。参与者和背景对2020-2021年全国儿童健康调查数据进行了二次分析，其中包括26,422名6-11岁儿童。方法采用累积性和基于类型的评估方法，包括基于家庭、社区和财务的ace。家庭吸烟状况包括无家庭吸烟，定义为儿童不与吸烟者生活在一起；仅在家中接触三手烟，定义为与不在室内吸烟的吸烟者生活在一起的儿童；家庭二手烟（SHS）和三手烟暴露，定义为与室内吸烟的吸烟者生活在一起的儿童。进行加权调整多项logistic回归分析。关于ACE的数量，22.4%的儿童经历过一次ACE， 12.2%经历过2-3次ACE， 4.9%经历过4-10次ACE。一次ACE患儿(AOR = 1.59, 95% CI = [1.26, 1.99]；AOR = 2.00, 95% CI = [1.17, 3.41]), 2 - 3 ace(优势比= 2.62,95% CI = [1.98, 3.45];AOR = 4.36, 95% CI =[2.52, 7.56])和电场ace(优势比= 5.16,95% CI = [3.48, 7.65];AOR = 9.71, 95% CI =[4.74, 19.88])分别增加了家庭仅暴露于三手烟和家庭SHS +三手烟的几率。以家庭、社区和金融为基础的ace增加了家庭仅暴露于THS和家庭SHS + THS暴露的几率。结论ace与学龄期儿童家庭TSE状况有关。
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