Factors Coded in the Study: Eight Subgroups of Factors
| Demographics: parent sex, age of parent, marital status, employment, race |
| Legal history: history of charges, history of prison, juvenile legal history |
| Substance history: alcohol history, drug history, alcohol use prior to offense, drug use prior to offense, intoxication during act |
| Offense characteristics: total children, children in filicide, child age, child sex, description of motive, description of filicide act, other victims, accomplice, method, previous attempts at filicide, length of consideration of filicide |
| Illness characteristics: history of mental illness, diagnosis, age at diagnosis/symptom onset, age at first hospitalization, length of mental illness treatment, history of psychiatric admissions, last contact with psychiatry/mental health services, history of suicide attempts and method, auditory hallucinations, command hallucinations, visual hallucinations, delusions and quality, depression, mania |
| Family characteristics: domestic violence, abuse of children |
| Offender developmental/psychosocial characteristics: social support, childcare, biological father involvement/stepfather, involvement of child protective services, source of income, custody dispute, school problems |
| Offender medical history: history of postpartum depression or psychosis, postpartum or pregnant state, medical problems |