Process mining the trajectories for adolescent-to-mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

Allison Peck; Steve Provost; Leah East; Marie Hutchinson

doi:10.1111/jan.15377

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Process mining the trajectories for adolescent-to-mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

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Process mining the trajectories for adolescent-to-mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

Allison Peck, Steve Provost, Leah East and Marie Hutchinson

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol.79(4), pp.1540-1552

04/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15377

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adolescent-to-mother violence

child health

childhood and adolescent mental health

family violence

nursing

process mining

trauma

Aim The aim was to discover longitudinal trajectories and patterns of events preceding adolescent-to-mother family violence in a geographic locale in Australia. Design This was a retrospective case series. Methods Routinely collected administrative data were sourced and linked from police and health service electronic records for adolescents born between 1994 and 2006 who had been issued a legal action for a family violence-related offence (n = 775). A time-stamped log of events from birth (where available) was created. Process mining was employed to discover dominant events and trajectories in the log from birth until adolescents' first recorded offence against their mother. Results/Findings Most adolescents in the case series offended against mothers (63%, n = 486). Trajectory analysis confirmed dominant early childhood events were repeated exposure to parental intimate partner violence (P-IPV), parental drug and/or alcohol use and neglect. During early adolescence, pathways towards adolescent-to-mother violence involved other offending, drug and/or alcohol use and mental health service contact. Conclusion The trajectories evidenced provide a complex picture of the emergence of adolescent-to-mother violence. From an early intervention perspective, it was found that many children and mothers were identifiable from police records in early childhood, at an average age of 35 months. Responses to adolescent family violence need to acknowledge the impact of childhood trauma and emerging mental health problems, along with strategies to mitigate the effect of P-IPV on mother-to-child relationships. Impact This is the first large-scale study to specifically examine trajectories from birth for adolescents who engage in violence towards mothers. The findings have important implications for the design and delivery of early intervention childhood services and interagency collaboration in nursing and midwifery services. In early adolescence, contact with mental health services represents an opportunity for screening and support interventions. This is an important preventive timepoint for family violence, adolescent drug and alcohol use and other offences.

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Title: Process mining the trajectories for adolescent-to-mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data
Creators: Allison Peck - Southern Cross University
Steve Provost - Southern Cross University
Leah East - University of New England
Marie Hutchinson - Southern Cross University
Publication Details: Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol.79(4), pp.1540-1552
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Grant note: AP was supported by a HDR scholarship which was funded by the Department of Regional New South Wales, Mid North Coast Local Health District, the North Coast Local Health District and Southern Cross University.
Identifiers: 991013046112602368
Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advanced Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: School of Health and Human Sciences; Human Sciences; Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Process mining the trajectories for adolescent-to-mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

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