“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

Sebahat AltundaÄŸ

Clinical Nursing Research, 2023, vol. 32, issue 2, 337-348

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). 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.

Keywords: child sexual abuse; sexual abuse prevention intervention; child protection; health education; public health; nursing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/10547738221141369

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