Clinical trial NCT03956628: Evaluation of Preventive (Stay Safe) Training Program of Child Abuse for Teachers and Children
Official title: Evaluation of Preventive (Stay Safe) Training Program of Child Abuse for Teachers and Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial From Multan City
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Abuse
Lead sponsor: Bahauddin Zakariya University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-05-21
Enrollment: 378
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 9
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: There are two groups, experimental and control group. Experimental group will be provided with psycho education about safety skills related to child abuse. Control group will not be given any intervention.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

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.

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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Children Safety Knowledge and Skills Questionnaire (SKSQ)
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Teachers' Knowledge/Attitudes Questionnaire (TKAQ)
timeFrame: 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Multan
country: Pakistan
facility: Zainab noor Hussain
state: Punjab
Study officials:
affiliation: Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan
name: Rizwana Amin, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: 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.
citation: 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.