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In the new study, about 5,600 professionals, a representative sample, were asked by Westat whether the children they had served appeared to have suffered specified harms or to be living under specified conditions.
In other words, they proposed to change the study's methodology so that more reports would be made to Westat.
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."
The secretary drew her statistics from the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, which was conducted by Westat Inc., a consulting firm that conducted similar studies in 1980 and 1986.
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."