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

NCT ID: NCT03956628

Last Updated: 2019-05-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 378 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-09-15
• Study Completion Date: 2019-04-15

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.

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.

Conditions

Child Abuse

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

experimental group

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

stay safe program

Intervention Type: 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.

control group

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

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Bahauddin Zakariya University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Zainab noor Hussain

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Rizwana Amin, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan

Locations

Zainab noor Hussain

Multan, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Countries

Pakistan

References

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.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 10626613 (View on PubMed)

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.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 10626614 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Study Documents

Document Type: stay safe programme

data can be accessed by approaching the above specified cite as it has programme that was used in the study.

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Related Links

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626613

this article was cited in the study

Other Identifiers

MPP-17-07

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id