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Safe Touches: A Rigorous Evaluation of a Sexual Abuse Prevention Program for Children

NCT02181647 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 492

Last updated 2014-07-04

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Summary

The primary goal of the study is to conduct a rigorous evaluation of the sexual abuse prevention program entitled, "Safe Touches: Personal Safety Training for Children (Safe Touches)." The main study hypothesis is that children who receive the Safe Touches intervention will show greater improvement on their knowledge of inappropriate touches compared to children who do not receive the intervention.

Conditions

  • Child Sexual Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Safe Touches: Personal Safety Training for Children

The intervention includes a 50-minute interactive training and an age-appropriate activity book on personal body safety to take home and complete with caregivers. Using culturally appropriate puppets, workshop facilitators use role-play to model scenarios to help children: a) recognize safe and not-safe touches, b) understand body safety, c) practice assertiveness skills, and d) help children identify whom they can go to for help.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mary L. Pulido, Ph.D. · The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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