CDC Research Priorities in Preventing Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Child Maltreatment

(National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 2002, pp. 51-59)

1. Evaluate strategies to disseminate and implement science-based parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment.
2. Evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions and policies to prevent perpetration of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
3. Identify social norms that support intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment and evaluate strategies to change them.
4. Evaluate training programs about intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child maltreatment, and elder abuse for health professionals.
5. Evaluate the health consequences of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment victimization across the lifespan.
6. Examine the development of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment perpetration to identify at-risk populations, modifiable risk and protective factors, optimal times and settings for intervention.
7. Develop and evaluate surveillance methods for intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
8. Evaluate strategies to disseminate information about preventing intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
9. Evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions and policies for preventing intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment victimization and its consequences.
10. Evaluate models for integrated community responses to intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
11. Examine the development of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment victimization to identify at-risk populations, modifiable risk and protective factors, and optimal times and settings for intervention.
12. Identify risk and protective factors and effective prevention strategies of elder abuse.
13. Study the role(s) of substance use and abuse as precursors to and consequences of intimate partner violence, sexual violence and child maltreatment, victimization, and preparation.
14. Evaluate the impact of extreme community and environmental stressors on intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
15. Describe service delivery use, impact, and costs of interventions for intimate partner violence, sexual violence and child maltreatment.