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CHILD ABUSE REVIEW
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 237-254Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/car.2195
Keywords
child maltreatment; fathers; parenting programmes; prevention; systematic review
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Both mothers and fathers perpetrate child maltreatment, but it is uncertain the extent to which child maltreatment prevention programmes include fathers. The objectives of this systematic review were to determine: (1) how many empirically studied primary prevention programmes for child maltreatment have included fathers; (2) among studies including fathers, what percentage of participants were fathers; and (3) whether programmes were effective in reducing paternal risk factors for child maltreatment. Three online databases were searched. Eligible articles were English language, original research studies describing an intervention for the primary prevention of child maltreatment for children?=?five years. Included studies had to include at least one father. After screening for eligibility using titles and abstracts, the full text of 158 articles was abstracted. Seventeen studies, describing 15 individual and one multi-site programme, met eligibility criteria. The majority of the studies identified by the systematic review were from the USA. Thirteen programmes had?
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