Identifying possible child sexual abuse from mental health NHS trust clinical records: a CRIS study

  • Applicant: Angela Sweeney
  • Project ID: 23-088

Rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) among people using mental health services are high, but there are a range of barriers to disclosing CSA in meetings with mental health professionals which inhibit appropriate care and support, including onward referral to specialist services. The purpose of this project is to identify how disclosure of possible CSA is recorded in mental health clinical records in order to inform future research that will aim to improve the care pathway for CSA survivors.

The Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system is a computer system that allows researchers at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to carry out research using information from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust clinical records.

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The Clinical Record Interactive Search has been developed in collboration with:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR Maudsley BRC