Child abuse & neglect
Estimating the impact of out-of-home placement on health risk behavior in adolescents exposed to maltreatment: An advanced causal inference approach.
Austin J Blake, Mariola Moeyaert, Felix J Thoemmes, David Mackinnon, Laurie Chassin
Published: 202610.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107882
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Youth who experience out-of-home placement (OOHP) engage in elevated health risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, unprotected sex), with risk potentially heightened for those placed during adolescence. Estimating causal effects is challeng…
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