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

May 19, 2019 updated by: Zainab noor Hussain, Bahauddin Zakariya University

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed 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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

378

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Pakistan
    • Punjab
      • Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, 60000
        • Zainab noor Hussain

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

5 years to 9 years (CHILD)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: SINGLE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: experimental group
participants in experimental group receive intervention and experimental group consists of two sub groups, teachers and students.
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.
NO_INTERVENTION: control group
participants in control group does not receive intervention and control group consists of two sub groups, teachers and students.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Children Safety Knowledge and Skills Questionnaire (SKSQ)
Time Frame: 2 months
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)
Time Frame: 2 months

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

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Bahauddin Zakariya University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Rizwana Amin, PhD, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (ACTUAL)

September 15, 2018

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

April 15, 2019

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

April 15, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 3, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 19, 2019

First Posted (ACTUAL)

May 21, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

May 21, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 19, 2019

Last Verified

May 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • MPP-17-07

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Study Data/Documents

  1. stay safe programme
    Information comments: data can be accessed by approaching the above specified cite as it has programme that was used in the study.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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