Sampling biases and implications for child abuse research.

Key Points

• The paper investigates the impact of sampling decisions on research outcomes related to child abuse.
• Examined literature on child abuse for criterion-dependent and method-dependent biases.
• Discussed recommendations to minimize these sampling biases.
• Identified significant issues related to sampling biases in child abuse research.
• Emphasized that existing literature may not accurately reflect child abuse prevalence due to these biases.