Preventing Sexual Misconduct by People with Intellectual Disabilities

防止智障人士的不当性行为

• 批准号: 7108732
• 负责人: JENNIFER J. WELLS
• 金额: $ 14.1万
• 依托单位: TECH ASSISTANCE INST/INTELLECTUAL DISABL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7108732
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; clinical research; clinical trials; computer assisted instruction; computer program /software; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; focus groups; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interactive multimedia; interpersonal relations; mental health personnel; mental retardation education /training; patient oriented research; rape; sex abuse; sex behavior disorder; sex offenses; social behavior; socializations; violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sexual abuse is a significant yet often hidden public health issue. The economic burden place on society by sex offenders has been estimated to be $2,055,528,000. Most of these costs are related to incarceration of offenders, while prevention of sexual abuse and efficacious treatment of sex offenders, particularly those with intellectual disablities (i.e., mental retardation), remain low priorities. There are approximately 7.5 million people with ID in the United States, 90% of whom are mildly impaired (i.e., mild mental retardation). The incidence of sex offending by people with intellectual disabilities has been estimated to range from 15 to 40%, with sex offenses accounting for 12 to 46% of convictions of in this population. Most sex offenders with intellectual disabilities are never adjudicated, but are diverted into supervised community-based programs such as group homes. This Phase I project will develop an interactive multi-media (IMM) CD-ROM training program designed to prevent sexual misconduct and opportunistic sexual offending by males and females with intellectual disabilities. The program will teach adults with intellectual disabilities to recognize interpersonal physical boundaries, to identify and assess risk variables that could lead to opportunistic sex offending, and develop a set of risk-reduction strategies that when employed, will prevent the occurrence of sexual misconduct or opportunistic sexual offending. The program will be designed for use in educational, vocational, social, rehabilitative, and residential environments. Novice computer users will be able to use the interactive mouse-driven Phase I CD-ROM program with no prior computer experience. Using a randomized control trial pre-test post-test group design with 20 subjects per group, the prototype CD-ROM program will be evaluated by adults with moderate to borderline intelligence (IQ range 50 through 80). As part of the Phase I evaluation, we will also begin to assess the impact of the prototype program on learning transfer and generalization. Phase II will create a set of 4 interactive CD-ROM programs tailored by age, sex, and knowledge. During Phase II, 2 DVD companion programs designed for use in group discussion or treatment environments will also be developed. Phase II will evaluate the efficacy of both CD-ROM and DVD technology for reducing the likelihood of sexual misconduct and opportunistic sex offending by adult males and adult females; and teen males and teen females with intellectual disabilities.

描述（由申请人提供）：性虐待是一个重大但常常隐藏的公共卫生问题。性犯罪者在社会上的经济负担估计为2,055,528,000美元。这些费用大多数与罪犯的监禁有关，而预防性虐待和对性犯罪者的有效待遇，尤其是那些智障人士（即智力低下）的罪犯，仍然是低点的优先事项。在美国，大约有750万ID的人，其中90％的人受到轻度障碍（即轻度智力低下）。估计智障人士的性犯罪发生率估计为15％至40％，性犯罪占该人群中信念的12％至46％。大多数智障性残疾的性犯罪者永远不会被裁定，而是将其转变为基于社区的监督计划，例如团体房屋。该阶段I项目将开发一个互动的多媒体（IMM）CD-ROM培训计划，旨在防止男性和智障女性的性行为不端和机会性的性犯罪。该计划将教授有智力残疾的成年人认识人际身体界限，以识别和评估可能导致机会性性犯罪的风险变量，并制定一系列降低风险的策略，这些策略将阻止发生性行为不端或机会性的性行为。该计划将设计用于教育，职业，社会，康复和住宅环境。新手计算机用户将能够使用没有以前的计算机体验的交互式鼠标驱动的I期CD-ROM程序。使用每组20个受试者的随机对照试验后测试后组设计，CD-ROM程序将由具有中度至边界智能的成年人进行评估（IQ范围50至80）。作为第一阶段评估的一部分，我们还将开始评估原型计划对学习转移和泛化的影响。第二阶段将创建一组由年龄，性别和知识量身定制的交互式CD-ROM程序。在第二阶段，还将开发用于在小组讨论或治疗环境中使用的2个DVD伴侣计划。第二阶段将评估CD-ROM和DVD技术的疗效，以减少成年男性和成年女性的性行为不端和机会性犯罪的可能性；以及青少年男性和智力残疾的青少年女性。