Agreement Between Prospective and Retrospective Measures of Childhood Maltreatment
By J. Baldwin, Aaron Reuben, J. Newbury, A. Danese. JAMA psychiatry, 2019
951 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Key Points Question What is the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment? Findings This systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 unique studies and 25 471 unique participants found poor agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment, with Cohen κ = 0.19. On average, 52% of individuals with prospective observations of childhood maltreatment did not retrospectively report it, and likewise, 56% of individuals retrospectively reporting childhood maltreatment did not have concordant prospective observations. Meaning Because findings from this meta-analysis demonstrated that prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment identify largely different groups of individuals, the 2 measures cannot be used interchangeably to study the associated health outcomes and risk mechanisms.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f36aa3d8eba17dc6ecfeb2fadc6721de322ea386
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Clinical Psychology
In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Citations in the corpus
- The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations (2024, background): “Recent findings from studies pertaining to mea surement 91,106 and prediction modelling 107,108 offer important op portunities to support the development and evaluation of policies and interventions to address this widespread societal problem.”
- Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services (2021, neutral): “…found no significant difference in agreement between retrospective and prospective reports regardless of whether maltreatment was measured by (1) CPS report and then later self-report, or (2) instances when both retrospective and prospective reports were self-reported (Baldwin et al., 2019).”
- Childhood Adversity and Neural Development: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “…adolescence, given a recent meta-analysis demonstrating that retrospective measures of adversity collected in adulthood identify different individuals than prospective measures collected during childhood (Baldwin et al. 2019), highlighting difficulties in comparing studies of children and adults.”