Evaluation of Preventive (Stay Safe) Training Program of Child Abuse for Teachers and Children

NCT03956628 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: MPP-17-07
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 378
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The current study aims to elaborate the effectiveness of stay safe programme which is a child abuse prevention programme for children, this study examine the effectiveness of this programme on children and teachers of Multan city schools. Mainly, this study enhance the understanding of teachers and children to provide protection and confidence by following programme.

Conditions

Child Abuse

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Children Safety Knowledge and Skills Questionnaire (SKSQ)

  the scale consist of 18 items. it is an open ended questionnaire which consist of the scoring key is 4- someone you don't know, 3- man/woman you don't know, 2- no response or don't know and 1- misconception.It measure the knowledge of children about strangers, bullying, touch, secrets, lost, disclosure and bribes. these are the sub scales and sub scales sum up to make a total score for each child. the items of scale deal with different knowledge and skills of children related to self-protection. The range of scoring is from 18 to 80 for complete questionnaire.maximum value is 80 and minimum is 18. Internal consistency reliability coefficient in regards to the stay safe programme (alpha = .79). if a child get 18 scores that means his safety knowledge is low while 80 means knowledge is high. this score obtains after sum up or average of the total sub scales.

  2 months

• Teachers' Knowledge/Attitudes Questionnaire (TKAQ)

  A 38 item questionnaire which assessed knowledge of prevalence, causes and indicators of child sexual abuse as well as characteristics of victims and offenders. In addition it examined parents' self-reports of the likelihood of them believing a child's disclosure of abuse, attributions of responsibility for sexual victimisation attitudes towards prevention, knowledge of and attitudes towards services and confidence/anxieties relating to sexual abuse. Parents responded to each item on a five point Likert scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". For 22 items "strongly agree" is the correct response and for 16 items "strongly disagree" is correct. Each item is scored from 1 to 5 and the potential range for total scores is from 38 to 190. The alpha co-efficient for the total questionnaire was .80, indicating good internal consistency reliability.

  2 months

Study Arms (2)

experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

participants in experimental group receive intervention and experimental group consists of two sub groups, teachers and students.

Behavioral: stay safe program

control group

NO INTERVENTION

participants in control group does not receive intervention and control group consists of two sub groups, teachers and students.

Interventions

stay safe program BEHAVIORAL

Prevention consist of 5-6 lessons having topics about learning safety skills which includes identifying touch, safe and unsafe environment/events, bullying, the good or bad secrets and strangers.

experimental group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 5 Years - 9 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• students enrolled in class 1-2
• age range between 5-9
• students allowed by their parents to participate in the study.

You may not qualify if:

• students not enrolled in class 1 or 2
• students not within age range.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bahauddin Zakariya University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Zainab noor Hussain

Multan, Punjab Province, 60000, Pakistan

Location

Related Publications (2)

• MacIntyre D, Carr A. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the stay safe primary prevention programme for child sexual abuse. Child Abuse Negl. 1999 Dec;23(12):1307-25. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(99)00092-7.

  PMID: 10626613 RESULT

• MacIntyre D, Carr A. Helping children to the other side of silence: a study of the impact of the stay safe programme on Irish children's disclosures of sexual victimization. Child Abuse Negl. 1999 Dec;23(12):1327-40. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(99)00097-6.

  PMID: 10626614 RESULT

Related Links

• this article was cited in the study

Study Officials

• Rizwana Amin, PhD

  Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: Participants are randomly assigned to control and experimental group.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Model Details: There are two groups, experimental and control group. Experimental group will be provided with psycho education about safety skills related to child abuse. Control group will not be given any intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 3, 2019
• First Posted: May 21, 2019
• Study Start: September 15, 2018
• Primary Completion: April 15, 2019
• Study Completion: April 15, 2019
• Last Updated: May 21, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

PA (1)