Dubowitz and Black developed a checklist to help health care professionals evaluate for evidence of neglect.
Checklist items:
(1) adequacy of clothing
(2) adequacy of hygiene
(3) appropriateness of the child's affect for the situation
(4) appropriateness of the child's interaction with parents for the situation
(5) level of parental emotional support for the child
(6) adequacy of nutrition
(7) growth and development for age
(8) identification and treatment of health problems (physical, emotional, dental)
(9) access to health care
(10) access to required medications
(11) adequacy of education
(12) exposure to hazards in the home (cigarette smoke, loaded guns, domestic violence)
(13) exposure to hazards outside of the home (violence in the neighborhood, riding a bicycle without a helmet, riding in a car without a child seat or seat belt, adequacy of play area)
(14) pattern of injuries or toxic ingestions suggesting inadequate supervision
(15) presence of risk factors for not having basic needs met (domestic violence, familial substance abuse, parental depression or mental illness, absence of parent, poverty, unemployment)
