Taking a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program to Scale: a Cost Analysis

Shipe, SL (通讯作者),Penn State Univ, Dept Human Dev & Family Studies, Child Maltreatment Solut Network, University Pk, PA 16802 USA.
2022-11
Cost analyses are used to determine overall costs of implementing evidence-based programming and may help decision makers determine how best to allocate finite resources. Child sexual abuse (CSA), regularly viewed as a human rights violation, is also a public health concern estimated to impact 27% of females and 5% of males by age 18. Universal, school-based CSA programs are one prevailing prevention strategy. However, there are no known cost analyses of school-based CSA prevention programming, thereby limiting potential scalability. Using the ingredients method, this cost analysis presents the findings of implementing Safe Touches, an evidence-based universal prevention program, across four sites (i.e., counties) in one mid-Atlantic state. Reaching a total of 14,235 s grade students, results indicate an average cost of $43 per student, an average classroom cost of $859, an average district cost of $10,637, and an average site cost of $154,243. There was a noted decrease in costs when more students were reached, suggesting a need to focus efforts on bolstering the reach of implementation efforts. Sensitivity analyses explored variations in implementation constraints such as personnel and facilities suggesting a range of per-student costs (lower-bound per-student cost = $34; upper-bound per-student cost = $64). Findings presented herein may be used to inform future universal CSA prevention efforts by providing detailed information about the costs of large-scale implementation of an evidence-based program among elementary-aged children.
PREVENTION SCIENCE
卷号:23|期号:8|页码:1394-1403
ISSN:1389-4986|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
资助机构
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development
资助信息
This project was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development through award P50 HD089922 and T32 HD101390. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
2
2013以来使用计数
2
EISSN
1573-6695
出版年
2022-11
DOI
10.1007/s11121-022-01401-4
WOS学科分类
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
Cost analysis Child sexual abuse Prevention Economic evaluation Implementation