TY - JOUR
T1 - Parent-Focused Sexual Abuse Prevention
T2 - Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
AU - Guastaferro, Kate
AU - Felt, John M.
AU - Font, Sarah A.
AU - Connell, Christian M.
AU - Miyamoto, Sheridan
AU - Zadzora, Kathleen M.
AU - Noll, Jennie G.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was supported in part by The Pennsylvania State University Social Science Research Institute, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development through award P50 HD089922, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through grant UL1 TR002014 and UL1 TR00045, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse through grant P50 DA039838. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was supported in part by The Pennsylvania State University Social Science Research Institute, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development through award P50 HD089922, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through grant UL1 TR002014 and UL1 TR00045, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse through grant P50 DA039838. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This study tested whether a child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention program, Smart Parents–Safe and Healthy Kids (SPSHK), could be implemented as an additional module in evidence-based parent training and whether the added module might detract from the efficacy of the original program. In a cluster randomized trial, six community-based organizations were randomized to deliver Parents as Teachers (PAT) with SPSHK (PAT+SPSHK) or PAT as usual (PAT-AU). CSA-related awareness and protective behaviors, as well as general parenting behaviors taught by PAT were assessed at baseline, post-PAT, post-SPSHK, and 1-month follow-up. Multilevel analyses revealed significant group by time interactions for both awareness and behaviors (ps <.0001), indicating the PAT+SPSHK group had significantly greater awareness of CSA and used protective behaviors more often (which were maintained at follow-up) compared to the PAT-AU group. No differences were observed in general parenting behaviors taught by PAT suggesting adding SPHSK did not interfere with PAT efficacy as originally designed. Results indicate adding SPHSK to existing parent training can significantly enhance parents’ awareness of and readiness to engage in protective behavioral strategies. Implementing SPHSK as a selective prevention strategy with at-risk parents receiving parent training through child welfare infrastructures is discussed.
AB - This study tested whether a child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention program, Smart Parents–Safe and Healthy Kids (SPSHK), could be implemented as an additional module in evidence-based parent training and whether the added module might detract from the efficacy of the original program. In a cluster randomized trial, six community-based organizations were randomized to deliver Parents as Teachers (PAT) with SPSHK (PAT+SPSHK) or PAT as usual (PAT-AU). CSA-related awareness and protective behaviors, as well as general parenting behaviors taught by PAT were assessed at baseline, post-PAT, post-SPSHK, and 1-month follow-up. Multilevel analyses revealed significant group by time interactions for both awareness and behaviors (ps <.0001), indicating the PAT+SPSHK group had significantly greater awareness of CSA and used protective behaviors more often (which were maintained at follow-up) compared to the PAT-AU group. No differences were observed in general parenting behaviors taught by PAT suggesting adding SPHSK did not interfere with PAT efficacy as originally designed. Results indicate adding SPHSK to existing parent training can significantly enhance parents’ awareness of and readiness to engage in protective behavioral strategies. Implementing SPHSK as a selective prevention strategy with at-risk parents receiving parent training through child welfare infrastructures is discussed.
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U2 - 10.1177/1077559520963870
DO - 10.1177/1077559520963870
M3 - Article
C2 - 33025835
AN - SCOPUS:85092472996
SN - 1077-5595
VL - 27
SP - 114
EP - 125
JO - Child Maltreatment
JF - Child Maltreatment
IS - 1
ER -