Rigorously Evaluating Approaches to Prevent Adult-Perpetrated Child Sex Abuse

严格评估防止成人实施儿童性虐待的方法

• 批准号: 10437484
• 负责人: Kellie Carlyle
• 金额: $ 39.63万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-30 至 2023-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10437484
• 关键词: Rigorously; Evaluating; Approaches; Prevent; Adult

Abstract School employee perpetrated CSA is a pervasive and untreated public health problem that effects 10% of PreK-12 students. There are few specific interventions that have been developed to prevent school employee CSA and none have been rigorously evaluated for reducing the number of child victims. This proposed study is the evaluation of a program for the primary prevention of school employee perpetrated sexual abuse, misconduct, and exploitation of students that places the responsibility of creating and maintaining safe cultures for children on adults. The prevention program – Praesidium’s Armatus® Learn to Protect – was developed based upon root cause analysis of adult to child sexual abuse in youth serving organizations and offers the promise of a high impact prevention intervention. Praesidium Armatus© Learn to Protect uses an eight-pronged approach to safety and teaches adults what policies must be in place, how to enforce policies, careful hiring and screening of new employees, addressing and stopping sexual and physical boundary crossing, acknowledging boundary crossings as gateways to sexual abuse, and monitoring staff who violate boundary requirements and codes of conduct with appropriate sanctions that reflect the seriousness of these actions. The proposed evaluation of Praesidium Armatus© Learn to Protect – a randomized nested mixed factorial design with individual-level and school level characteristics as nested factors within intervention dosage, the between-subjects component, and time – employs multi-stage random cluster sampling from three insurance pools which include 95 school districts containing 407 elementary schools, 90 middle schools, 129 High Schools, 69 mixed grade schools, and 68 independent, charter, specialized schools will identify treatment and control participants. Schools will be randomly assigned to treatment (Armatus© Learn to Protect process and training: Year two) and delayed intervention control (no process or training in year two; Armatus© Learn to Protect in year 3). In year one, each sample school/district will be assessed for safety readiness to include current policies, training, hiring/screening practices, and internal communication systems. Pre-post measures include primary outcome indicators (number of police, Title IX, and insurance claim reports of school employee sexual abuse of students, staff self-report of boundary behaviors,) and secondary indicators of propensity for risky behaviors (staff attitudes toward boundaries between staff and students, bystander efficacy and intent to report). This study has the potential to provide evidence that could make Praesidium Armatus© Learn to Protect the first evidence-based program for prevention of adult perpetrated CSA of students. 1

抽象的 学校员工实施 CSA 是一个普遍且未经治疗的公共卫生问题，影响了 10% 的学生 PreK-12 学生。几乎没有制定具体的干预措施来防止学校员工 CSA 没有对减少儿童受害者人数进行严格评估。这项拟议的研究是 对学校雇员性虐待初级预防计划的评估， 不当行为和剥削学生，使他们有责任创造和维护安全文化 对于成人的儿童。制定了预防计划——Praesidium 的 Armatus® Learn to Protect 基于青少年服务组织中成人对儿童性虐待的根本原因分析，并提供 承诺进行高影响力的预防干预。 Praesidium Armatus© 学习保护使用八管脚 安全方法，并教导成年人必须制定哪些政策、如何执行政策、谨慎雇用 筛选新员工，解决和阻止性和身体界限的跨越， 承认边界过境点是性虐待的门户，并监控违反边界的工作人员 要求和行为守则以及反映这些行为严重性的适当制裁。 对 Praesidium Armatus© 学习保护的拟议评估 – 随机嵌套混合阶乘 将个人水平和学校水平特征作为干预剂量内的嵌套因素进行设计， 受试者间成分和时间——采用来自三种保险的多阶段随机整群抽样 包括 95 个学区，其中包括 407 所小学、90 所初中、129 所高中 学校、69 所混合年级学校和 68 所独立、特许、专门学校将确定治疗和 控制参与者。学校将被随机分配接受治疗（Armatus© 学习保护流程和 培训：第二年）和延迟干预控制（第二年没有流程或培训；Armatus© 学习 第 3 年进行保护)。在第一年，将对每个样本学校/学区的安全准备情况进行评估，包括 当前的政策、培训、招聘/筛选实践以及内部沟通系统。事前事后措施 包括主要结果指标（警察人数、第九条和学校员工的保险索赔报告） 对学生的性虐待、工作人员对边界行为的自我报告）以及性倾向的次要指标 危险行为（员工对员工和学生之间界限的态度、旁观者的效率和意图） 报告）。这项研究有可能提供证据，使 Praesidium Armatus© 学会 保护第一个预防成人对学生实施 CSA 的循证计划。 1