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

Child Abuse Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Evaluation of Preventive (Stay Safe) Training Program of Child Abuse for Teachers and Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial From Multan City

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03956628
• Other study ID #: MPP-17-07
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 15, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 15, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: May 2019
• Source: Bahauddin Zakariya University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Description:

The study examine the stay safe programme effectiveness among school teachers and children, as Pakistan is today badly indulge in this issue; In this circumstances this type of study provide essential role in society. some schools from Multan city are included, the quasi experimental study is used, where the participants are randomly divided into two groups (control and experimental). school based sampling method is used where different campuses of one school is included, through random number generator, six schools are selected for participation where 3 schools are included in control group and 3 are in experimental group. the participants consist of school teachers and children, where each group (children & teachers) is further divided into control and experimental group. children and teachers of class 1 and 2 are included. scales used in the study are Battle self-esteem inventory and children knowledge and skills questionnaire for children while teachers knowledge and skills questionnaire for teachers is used in study. 1 week time gap is also considered between pre and post testing for better examination of change. stay safe programme is very powerful tool as it cover different sensitive issues and provide confidence or safety skills to children.it also provide teachers with the strategies that they should use to make classroom environment healthy or encourage children to speak up and also provide guidance to deal with issues safely and listen every child carefully. Different videos, worksheets, basic knowledge that cover 5 major topics like feeling safe and unsafe, wanted and unwanted touch, bullying, tell adults about negative interaction with bullies and victimizers, strangers and dealing with strangers are all include in the stay safe programme. The lessons that include in this programme are so healthy and best for the protection of child, it also boost their self-esteem and make them worthy and active cognitively. informed consent is provided to participants for initiating the study properly, as it is ethical. every participant data would be confidential or the theme of study would be debrief to the control group after study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 378
• Est. completion date: April 15, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: April 15, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 9 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. students enrolled in class 1-2

2. age range between 5-9

3. students allowed by their parents to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. students not enrolled in class 1 or 2

2. students not within age range.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Child Abuse

Intervention

Behavioral:
• stay safe program
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Pakistan	Zainab noor Hussain	Multan	Punjab

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bahauddin Zakariya University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Pakistan, 

References & 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. — View Citation

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. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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
Primary	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

External Links

•   this article was cited in the study