Inter-agency collaboration factors affecting multidisciplinary workers’ ability to identify child maltreatment

Objectives This study aimed to clarify the factors of successful inter-agency collaboration that affect multidisciplinary workers’ abilities to identify child maltreatment. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted; the contents of the questionnaire included the Collaboration Evaluation Scale we developed and the workers’ abilities to identify child maltreatment. In total, 277 individuals from various agencies in Japan participated in this study. To examine the factors of successful inter-agency collaboration affecting workers’ awareness of child maltreatment, we used hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results The analysis showed the positive effect of “commitment with loyalty” on the workers’ awareness of child maltreatment-related information in all fields (β = .18–.31, p