Re: Provider reporting behavior

[Roy W Wilson <rwwst6+@xxxxxxxx>]

Chris,
	
Rosonna Tite has done work that might be of interest. Hereare the
abbreviated titles:

	HOW TEACHERS DEFINE AND RESPOND TO CHILD ABUSE .. - CAN 17, 1990
	MUDDLING THROUGH ... - INTERCHANGE 25(1), 1994
	DETECTING THE SYMPTOMS OF CHILD ABUSE ... CANDAIAN JOURNAL OF ED
19(1), 1994

See also paper in 1995 or 1996 issue of CAN by Crenshaw, et. al.
that analyzes educator responses to a survey. Among some of 
Crenshaw's disturbing, yet perhaps enlightening, conclusions is that a
"diffusion of responsibility" might have been operating among the Kansas educators
that responded to his survey, thereby accounting for what he and
associates took as under-reporting. 

I have done some preliminary ethnographic work in an elementary
school with a largely poor, African-American, student body and a largely
European American teacher corps. My own view is that
people's sincere beliefs and actions are out of synch, partly explainable
in terms of the "bystander effect" (plus other contextual factors).

If anyone has any thoughts on the applicability of the bystander effect
approach, I'd be most interested in seeing them as I'm planning a 
dissertation on reporting by school personnel for which the bystander
effect is a major part of the theoretical framework.

Roy Wilson
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Administrative and Policy Studies
rwwst6@pitt.edu (Email address)

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, SEDLAKA1 wrote:

>      Chris,
>      
>      Ask the Clearinghouse for a copy of the NIS-3 Sentinel Questionnaire 
>      Followup Study.  The NIS has consistently found that the majority of 
>      children who experience countable abuse/neglect were _not_ 
>      investigated by CPS.  (The uninvestigated cases may have not been 
>      reported, or they may have been screened out prior to an investigation 
>      at CPS--the NIS cannot discriminate these contributions to the total 
>      uninvestigated).  
>      
>      Professionals in schools are an important source of information about 
>      countable cases overall.  Moreover, school sentinels were aware of the 
>      maltreatment of a large majority of the uninvestigated children.  In 
>      NIS-2, nearly 3/4 of the uninvestigated children were recognized as 
>      maltreated by school sentinels.  In the NIS-3, school sentinels 
>      recognized 2/3 of the countable but uninvestigated children.  
>      
>      The NIS-3 Sentinel Questionnaire Followup Study was a mail survey of 
>      the NIS-3 school sentinels, designed to identify barriers to CPS 
>      reporting by school professionals.  
>      
>      Andrea
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> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Provider reporting behavior
> Author:  Chris Koepke <koepkec@aehn2.einstein.edu> at Internet-E-Mail
> Date:    1/27/99 11:45 AM
> 
> 
> I am the evaluator or a new program in Pennsylvania designed to increase 
> primary care provider reporting of suspected child abuse cases.  The 
> evaluation will consist of surveys tapping reporting rates and predictors of 
> these rates.  While I have extensive experience evaluating child health 
> programs, this is my first in child abuse.  
>      
> I am testing many hypotheses concerning predictors of provider reporting 
> (e.g. knowledge of identifying symtoms, fear of making parents angry, 
> reimbursement issues, knowledge of reporting protocols, attitudes concerning 
> provider roles in child abuse, time available for assessment, etc.)  I do 
> not want to miss any real important predictors.  Could anyone point my in 
> the right direction?
>      
> Also please let me know, if anyone has a standard for assessing reporting 
> rates in a survey.  My current item(s) ask for number of cases reported in 
> past month, year, or ever --  for physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and 
> factitious illness respectively.  
>      
> Thank you, Chris Koepke
>      
> ______________________________________________ 
> Christopher P. Koepke, Ph.D.
> Office for Children's Health Policy Research 
> Albert Einstein Medical Center
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> 5501 Old York Rd.
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