TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Assessing, consulting, reporting heuristics in professional decision-making regarding suspected child maltreatment in community healthcare services
JO  - Child maltreatment
A1  - Enosh, Guy
A1  - Alfandari, Ravit
A1  - Nouman, Hani
A1  - Dolev, Lilach
A1  - Dascal-Weichhendler, Hagit
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This study investigated child protection decision-making practices of healthcare-professionals in community-health-services.     We examined the effect of heuristics in professional judgments regarding suspected maltreatment, as affected by the child's ethnicity, gender, and family socioeconomic-status, as well as the healthcare-worker's workload-stress, and personal and professional background. Furthermore, we examined how these variables influence judgments regarding suspected maltreatment and intentions to consult and report child-maltreatment. We used an experimental survey design including vignettes manipulating the child's characteristics. Data was collected from 412 professionals employed at various community-health-service-clinics of the largest health-management organization in northern Israel.     Findings show that all subjective factors have a significant effect on suspected child-maltreatment assessment, which appears as a significant predictor of later decisions regarding consultation and reporting.     This study lends support to prior research indicating that healthcare-professionals' decisions may incorporate biases, and suggests how the effects of these biases' are mediated through a sequence of decisions.     Recommendations focus on providing regular consultation opportunities for practitioners.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-5595
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559520937351
ID  - ref1
ER  -