Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/47640
Title: “Don’t Touch My Body!” Child Sexual Abuse Training Program for Future Pre-School Educators: A Single-Blind, Pre-Test/Post-Test, Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Altundağ S.
Keywords: child protection
child sexual abuse
health education
nursing
public health
sexual abuse prevention intervention
article
awareness
body regions
child
child protection
child sexual abuse
comparative effectiveness
controlled study
convenience sample
education
female
health education
human
human experiment
human tissue
leadership
major clinical study
male
nurse
pretest posttest design
public health
randomized controlled trial
school teacher
security
sexual abuse
single blind procedure
touch
training
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the “Don’t Touch My Body” Training Program (DTMB-TP) and raise awareness of child sexual abuse (CSA) among future pre-school teachers enrolled in a Turkish university. The study design was quasi-experimental and employed two groups (intervention and control) with pre-test/post-test. Convenience sampling method was used. The study sample included participants (n = 218) enrolled in an academic degree program to become pre-school teachers. Data were collected using a descriptive information form and the “DTMB” awareness form. The data collection forms were administered to the study and control groups at baseline (pre-test) and 4 weeks after the intervention. The intervention applied to the experimental group was conducted face-to-face in one class hour (40 minutes) under the leadership of a nurse. There was a statistically significant increase in the knowledge of the children’s private body parts, good/bad touch, reactions to strangers, and the family security password in the intervention group in the post-test (p <.05). In the post-test, no increase was observed in the control group’s CSA knowledge level score (p >.05). The DTMB-TP effectively increased the awareness of preventing sexual abuse in participants. This study concluded that education effectively raised awareness to prevent CSA and provided basic data for larger-scale studies. © The Author(s) 2022.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10547738221141369
https://hdl.handle.net/11499/47640
ISSN: 1054-7738
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