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Child Abuse: early-phase trial registry

5 of 20 indexed Child Abuse trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #848 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

20 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #848 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Child Abuse: 20 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Child Abuse is the subject of 20 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 4 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, running 4 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition child-abuse

OPEN 5 | RECR 25% | LATE 0 | EARLY 4 | RANK #848 | SPON 4

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Cancer (25% recruiting · 8 trials)

Advanced or Metastatic Solid55%ALS50%Abdominal Pain25%Acute Myocardial Infarction25%Child Abuse (this)25%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Child Abuse

Child Abuse lists 5 open slots (25% of 20 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Child Abuse on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Child Abuse is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 20 indexed trials (25%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Child Abuse research.

    Milton S. Hershey Medical Center accounts for 4 of 20 trials (20%). 15 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Child Abuse enrolment sits around 351 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 351 among the 20 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 3 of those (15%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Child Abuse research is mostly interventional.

    18 interventional and 2 observational studies make up this index (90% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 23

Open and recent trials

20 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING NA 35,000 participants

iLookOut for Child Abuse -Online Learning Module for Early Childcare Providers

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT02225301

RECRUITING NA 6,000 participants

iLookOut for Child Abuse: Micro-learning to Improve Knowledge Retention

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT04324619

RECRUITING Phase 2 280 participants

Substance Misuse and Family Violence Treatment Fathers

Yale University

NCT06650267

RECRUITING NA 240 participants

A Regional Partnership to Improve Outcomes Through Fatherhood Engagement

Montefiore Medical Center

NCT05562557

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

K-ORCA: Testing a Decision Support Tool and Group Process for Selecting Interventions

Chestnut Health Systems

NCT06375551

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 500 participants

Calling All Dads! Evaluation of APAs ACT Program: Engaging Fathers to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences

Georgia State University

NCT06075446

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 343 participants

Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) St. Joseph's Children Home Visiting Longitudinal Study

University of New Mexi

NCT05729945

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 234 participants

Fostering Healthy Futures for Teens: An RCT

University of Denver

NCT03707366

COMPLETED Phase 2 14,690 participants

A Dissemination Trial of the Positive Parenting Program to Reduce Child Maltreatment in South Carolina

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NCT00164606

COMPLETED NA 2,059 participants

iLook Out for Child Abuse: An Innovative Learning Module for Childcare Providers

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT03185728

COMPLETED Phase 2 1,075 participants

Competency Training, Staff Performance, & Family Outcomes

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NCT00336193

COMPLETED NA 533 participants

Mitigating ACEs in Pediatric Primary Care: Cohort #2 With 6-24 Month Old Children

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

NCT04160013

COMPLETED NA 468 participants

Collaborative Care for Infants at Risk

University of Utah

NCT03199326

COMPLETED NA 404 participants

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Safe at Home Program

International Rescue Committee

NCT04163549

COMPLETED 351 participants

Disseminating Child Abuse Clinical Decision Support to Improve Detection, Evaluation and Reporting

University of Pittsburgh

NCT03840798

COMPLETED Phase 1 280 participants

Abuse-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children Who Have Been Physically Abused

University of Pittsburgh

NCT00494286

COMPLETED NA 191 participants

Family-Based Treatment for Parental Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment

Medical University of South Carolina

NCT01656837

COMPLETED NA 123 participants

Evaluation of Parenting Interventions to Decrease Family Risk for Child Maltreatment

Duke University

NCT00586677

COMPLETED NA 73 participants

Wraparound for High-risk Families with Substance Use Disorders: Examining Family, Child, and Parent Outcomes

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

NCT04637581

COMPLETED NA 33 participants

Integrating Animal-Assisted Therapy Into Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Maltreated Youth

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT03135119

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 2 3

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Child Abuse records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

iLook Out for Child Abuse Other
2 trials
Wraparound Behavioral
1 trials
Early Relationships Behavioral
1 trials
Health and Safety Behavioral
1 trials
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Behavioral
1 trials
Collaborative Care Other
1 trials
Safe at Home Behavioral
1 trials
TF-CBT+AAT Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Child Abuse trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Pennsylvania 5 trials
New York 3 trials
Connecticut 2 trials
Colorado 2 trials
Wisconsin 1 trials
Utah 1 trials
Tennessee 1 trials
South Carolina 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Child Abuse page

20 registered trials, 5 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Child Abuse condition card totals 20 registered trials; most-linked intervention iLook Out for Child Abuse; top US site state Pennsylvania. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.