2022
DOI: 10.2196/36445
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Excess Google Searches for Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infoveillance Approach

Abstract: Background The COVID-19 pandemic has created environments with increased risk factors for household violence, such as unemployment and financial uncertainty. At the same time, it led to the introduction of policies to mitigate financial uncertainty. Further, it hindered traditional measurements of household violence. Objective Using an infoveillance approach, our goal was to determine if there were excess Google searches related to exposure to child abu… Show more

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“…People from ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in DA statistics [ 2 ] and this reflects an important perspective that is missing in our research. Although we did not examine this topic directly in our research, evidence suggests that instances of child abuse and child witnessed IPV may have risen during the pandemic [ 62 , 63 ] and this also remains an important avenue of future enquiry.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…People from ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in DA statistics [ 2 ] and this reflects an important perspective that is missing in our research. Although we did not examine this topic directly in our research, evidence suggests that instances of child abuse and child witnessed IPV may have risen during the pandemic [ 62 , 63 ] and this also remains an important avenue of future enquiry.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During the pandemic, the police in Bangalore and Tamil Nadu received increased reports from IPV victims ( Kannan, 2020 ; Peter, 2020 ). Adolescents exposed to parental IPV had an aggravation of pre-existing difficulties and inequities due to the COVID-19 epidemic ( Abramson, 2020 ; Riddell et al, 2022 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent work has explored trends in violence-related online help-seeking during the pandemic. Google searches related to child maltreatment increased during the pandemic [ 11 , 12 ] but may not represent help-seeking by victims. Similarly, unsupervised learning of tweets revealed how family violence was discussed during the pandemic but could not delineate whether the source was victims, perpetrators, or organizations [ 13 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%