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Westat then determined if the reported "harms" and "conditions" met the study's definitions of "abuse" and "neglect," and generated estimates of incidence.
The great majority of emotional-abuse cases, according to the 1986 Westat study, involved "verbal assaults," and more than half of the emotional-neglect cases involved "the refusal or delay of psychological care."
Concerned, I wrote to Secretary Shalala in March, stating: "The Westat findings may be extremely significant, but there is reason to doubt that they reflect an actual increase in abuse and neglect."
Like others, I tried to get more information about the study from Westat, but was rebuffed.
Some of the increases in sexual abuse, physical abuse, and physical neglect uncovered by Westat may well reflect a true deterioration of conditions in disorganized, poverty-stricken households.