CSA Prevention Training for Child Care Professionals: Stewards of Children

CSA 儿童保育专业人员预防培训：儿童管理者

• 批准号: 7176728
• 负责人: Alyssa Ann Rheingold
• 金额: $ 29.4万
• 依托单位: MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
• 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 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7176728
• 关键词: Internet; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; child care personnel; clinical research; clinical trials; computer assisted instruction; education evaluation /planning; human subject; sex abuse; training; violence prevention

Given the significant rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) in the United States (12%), as well as the deleterious consequences for victims exposed to such maltreatment, identifying an effective prevention program is clearly a priority. As discussed in Healthy People 2010, "the evaluation of ongoing programs is a major component to help identify effective approaches for violence prevention." There is growing awareness that child care professionals, such as teachers, child care personnel, and clergy, are in a unique position to identify possible sexual abuse cases and intervene on behalf of children by virtue of their accessibility to children and their expertise in child development. Programs to train child care professionals about child maltreatment have received insufficient attention and evaluation. The primary goal of this study is to conduct a multi-site controlled evaluation of an already existing CSA prevention program, Darkness To Light's Stewards of Children, on impacting child care professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to CSA. Darkness to Light (DTL), a national non-profit organization seeking to protect children from sexual abuse, has developed a three hour training program for child care professionals to assist them in understanding, recognizing, and appropriately responding to CSA. DTL's sexual abuse prevention training is offered via an in-person training format and soon via a web-based training format. Investigating best implementation strategies is also a key issue in developing and implementing cost effective programs aimed to prevent CSA. This proposed project involves 300 child care professionals recruited from children advocacy centers across three states to be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) in-person training, (2) web- based training, or (3) no training exposure. Dependant variables will include measures of CSA knowledge, attitudes about CSA, self report preventative behaviors, response to hypothetical behavioral vignettes, and organizational policy and behavior changes. The current proposal involves a joint collaboration between well-established researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina's National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, a non-profit community organization Darkness to Light, as well as partnering children's advocacy centers across several states.

考虑到美国儿童性虐待（CSA）的显着率（12％），以及有害的 对暴露于这种虐待的受害者的后果，确定有效的预防计划显然是 优先事项。如《健康人》 2010年所讨论的，“对正在进行的计划的评估是主要组成部分 为了确定预防暴力的有效方法。 教师，托儿人员和神职人员等专业人士处于独特的位置以确定可能 性虐待案件和代表儿童的干预，凭借对儿童及其儿童的可及性 儿童发展方面的专业知识。培训有关儿童虐待的托儿专业人士的计划 受到的关注和评估不足。这项研究的主要目标是进行多站点 对已经存在的CSA预防计划的受控评估，《黑暗的光》管理员 儿童，影响与CSA有关的托儿专业人士的知识，态度和行为。黑暗 揭露（DTL），一个国家非营利组织寻求保护儿童免受性虐待，已有 为托儿专业人员制定了三个小时的培训计划，以帮助他们理解， 认识并适当响应CSA。 DTL的性虐待预防培训是通过 面对面培训格式，并通过基于网络的培训格式很快。调查最佳实施 策略也是制定和实施旨在防止CSA的成本效益计划的关键问题。 这个拟议的项目涉及从儿童倡导中心招募的300名儿童保育专业人员 三个州要随机分配给三个条件之一：（1）面对面培训，（2）基于网络的培训， 或（3）没有培训曝光。因变量将包括CSA知识的度量，有关的态度 CSA，自我报告预防行为，对假设行为小插图的反应和组织 政策和行为改变。当前的建议涉及建立良好的共同合作 南卡罗来纳州国家犯罪受害者研究和治疗的研究人员 中心，非营利性社区组织的黑暗，以及与儿童倡导合作 遍布几个州。