Preventing Sexual Misconduct by People with Intellectual Disabilities

防止智障人士的不当性行为

• 批准号: 7108732
• 负责人: JENNIFER J. WELLS
• 金额: $ 14.1万
• 依托单位: TECH ASSISTANCE INST/INTELLECTUAL DISABL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7108732
• 关键词: DVD /CD ROM; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; clinical research; clinical trials; computer assisted instruction; computer program /software; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; focus groups; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interactive multimedia; interpersonal relations; mental health personnel; mental retardation education /training; patient oriented research; rape; sex abuse; sex behavior disorder; sex offenses; social behavior; socializations; violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sexual abuse is a significant yet often hidden public health issue. The economic burden place on society by sex offenders has been estimated to be $2,055,528,000. Most of these costs are related to incarceration of offenders, while prevention of sexual abuse and efficacious treatment of sex offenders, particularly those with intellectual disablities (i.e., mental retardation), remain low priorities. There are approximately 7.5 million people with ID in the United States, 90% of whom are mildly impaired (i.e., mild mental retardation). The incidence of sex offending by people with intellectual disabilities has been estimated to range from 15 to 40%, with sex offenses accounting for 12 to 46% of convictions of in this population. Most sex offenders with intellectual disabilities are never adjudicated, but are diverted into supervised community-based programs such as group homes. This Phase I project will develop an interactive multi-media (IMM) CD-ROM training program designed to prevent sexual misconduct and opportunistic sexual offending by males and females with intellectual disabilities. The program will teach adults with intellectual disabilities to recognize interpersonal physical boundaries, to identify and assess risk variables that could lead to opportunistic sex offending, and develop a set of risk-reduction strategies that when employed, will prevent the occurrence of sexual misconduct or opportunistic sexual offending. The program will be designed for use in educational, vocational, social, rehabilitative, and residential environments. Novice computer users will be able to use the interactive mouse-driven Phase I CD-ROM program with no prior computer experience. Using a randomized control trial pre-test post-test group design with 20 subjects per group, the prototype CD-ROM program will be evaluated by adults with moderate to borderline intelligence (IQ range 50 through 80). As part of the Phase I evaluation, we will also begin to assess the impact of the prototype program on learning transfer and generalization. Phase II will create a set of 4 interactive CD-ROM programs tailored by age, sex, and knowledge. During Phase II, 2 DVD companion programs designed for use in group discussion or treatment environments will also be developed. Phase II will evaluate the efficacy of both CD-ROM and DVD technology for reducing the likelihood of sexual misconduct and opportunistic sex offending by adult males and adult females; and teen males and teen females with intellectual disabilities.

描述（由申请人提供）：性虐待是一个重大但往往隐藏的公共卫生问题。据估计，性犯罪者给社会带来的经济负担为2,0055,52.8万美元。这些费用大部分与罪犯的监禁有关，而预防性虐待和有效治疗性犯罪者，特别是那些有智力残疾（即智力迟钝）的性犯罪者，仍然不是优先事项。在美国，大约有750万人患有ID，其中90%是轻度受损（即轻度智力迟钝）。据估计，智障人士性犯罪的发生率在15%到40%之间，其中性犯罪占这一人群被定罪人数的12%到46%。大多数有智力障碍的性犯罪者从未被判决，而是被转移到有监督的社区项目中，比如集体之家。第一期计划将发展互动多媒体唯读光碟训练计划，以防止智障男女的不当性行为和机会性侵犯。该项目将教导有智力障碍的成年人认识人际之间的身体界限，识别和评估可能导致机会性侵犯的风险变量，并制定一套降低风险的策略，这些策略在实施时将防止不当性行为或机会性侵犯的发生。该方案将被设计用于教育、职业、社会、康复和居住环境。没有电脑经验的电脑新手也可以使用交互式鼠标驱动的第一阶段光盘程序。采用随机对照试验前测后测组设计，每组20名受试者，原型CD-ROM程序将由中等至边缘智力（智商范围50至80）的成年人进行评估。作为第一阶段评估的一部分，我们还将开始评估原型项目对学习迁移和泛化的影响。第二阶段将根据年龄、性别和知识定制一套4个交互式光盘程序。在第二阶段，还将开发2个DVD配套程序，用于小组讨论或治疗环境。第二阶段将评估CD-ROM和DVD技术在减少成年男性和成年女性发生不当性行为和机会性侵犯的可能性方面的功效；还有有智力障碍的男女青少年。