Citation

MacMillan HL, MacMillan JH, Offord DR, Griffith L, MacMillan A. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 1994; 35(5): 857-876.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7962245

Abstract

This paper (Part II) and the previous paper (Part I) provide an overview of the primary prevention of child maltreatment. Part II focuses on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. It includes prospective controlled trials published between January 1979 and May 1993. These studies were systematically identified and the quality of each trial was determined using criteria which assessed methodological rigor. Interventions aimed at the prevention of sexual abuse were classified into eight main categories based on the method of intervention. All programs had education as the primary focus. There is evidence that educational programs can improve safety skills and knowledge of children about sexual abuse but no study has produced data that education actually reduces the occurrence of sexual abuse.

Language: en