Structured Topic Modeling of Child Fatal Injury Narratives Using Machine Learning with County-Level Demographic Indicators to Strengthen Prevention Strategies

Gia E. Barboza-Salerno, Karla J. Shockley McCarthy, Taylor R. Harrington, Charis Stanek, Sharefa A. Duhaney, Scottye J. Cash, Vincent J. Palusci, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, New York University School of Medicine, New York

Child Maltreatment

Published online on December 18, 2025

Abstract

Child Maltreatment, Ahead of Print.
Interventions for children at risk for fatal injury have been limited by the lack of systematic methods to detect and classify the circumstances surrounding deaths recorded in unstructured text narratives. To address this gap, we analyzedN= 453 child ...