Empowering Elementary and Middle School Youth to Speak Up and Be Safe: Advancing Prevention of Child Maltreatment with a Universal School-Based Curriculum

Wolfersteig, W (通讯作者),Arizona State Univ, Watts Coll Publ Serv & Community Solut, Southwest Interdisciplinary Res Ctr SIRC, Sch Social Work, Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA.
2022-10
Child maltreatment is a global public health problem, and school-based universal prevention programs such as the Speak Up Be Safe (SUBS) curriculum can be an effective solution to help address child violence. This randomized control study employed a pre-, post-, and six-month follow-up design for students in kindergarten to grade 8, approximately ages 5-13 (n = 2797). Surveys measured the efficacy of the curriculum in increasing students' knowledge of safety rules and self-protection strategies. The analyses explored the differences at follow-up between the conditions for each index/scale for each grade using an analysis of covariance, which controlled for the pre-survey scores. The SUBS group had significantly higher scores at follow-up than the students in the control group. This study showed that the students learned new knowledge and skills to act upon and identify child abuse and neglect in keeping themselves and others safe. Policy- and decision makers now know that as a child maltreatment prevention program, SUBS can be implemented universally in schools at a low cost, delivering an essential evidence-based safety curriculum that protects students from child maltreatment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:19
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
资助信息
This research was funded by the Arizona Department of Child Safety, under an Interagency Service Agreement (ISA) with the Arizona Board of Regents, DBA Arizona State University, FP00015501, AWD00032621; DCS contract ID Number DC201700002-23.1.2 Amendment 5 (W. Wolfersteig, PI). Data analysis for this manuscript was facilitated by the Methods and Statistics Clinic of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, a Specialized Center of Excellence for Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities under U54MD002316 (F. Marsiglia, PI).
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
5
2013以来使用计数
5
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-10
DOI
10.3390/ijerph191911856
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
child maltreatment prevention child abuse and neglect evidence-based intervention school safety curriculum universal prevention program bullying
资助机构
Arizona Department of Child Safety(ISA) Arizona Board of Regents, DBA Arizona State University DCS National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities(United States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD))
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
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