Trial reportPloS one2017
Educating early childhood care and education providers to improve knowledge and attitudes about reporting child maltreatment: A randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02225301 (Early Childhood Practitioner's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Reporting Child Abuse/Neglect-iLookOut), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Early Childhood Practitioner's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Reporting Child Abuse/Neglect-iLookOut
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Child protection training for professionals to improve reporting of child abuse and neglect.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A randomized control trial of a child abuse mandated reporter training: Knowledge and attitudes.Child abuse & neglect · 2021Trial
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- Teachers and Caregivers Knowledge and Attitude About Child Rights and Child Protection in Muscat, Oman.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2025Article
- Knowledge of Child Abuse and Neglect among General Practitioners and Pediatricians in Training: A Survey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Development of a Screening Tool for Childcare Professionals to Detect and Refer Infant and Toddler Maltreatment and Trauma: A Tale of Four Countries.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Provider Attitudes and Self-Efficacy When Delivering a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Module: An Exploratory Study.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Child Maltreatment and Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes: An Exploration of Biopsychosocial Determinants and Implications for Prevention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Review
- Teachers' Responses to Child Maltreatment.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Identifying what works for whom: Implementation outcomes followingJournal of clinical and translational science · 2023Article
- Integrating Validity Evidence to Revise a Child Abuse Knowledge Test for Early Childhood Education Providers: A Mixed Methods Approach.The American journal of evaluation · 2022Article
- Effect of training about child neglect and abuse to teachers and its effect to awareness.BMC public health · 2022Article
- How can school help victims of violence? Evaluation of online training for European schools' staff from a multidisciplinary approach.PloS one · 2022Article
- Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond.Child abuse & neglect · 2021Article
- AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAM ON CHILD ABUSE AND ITS REPORTING.The journal of educators online · 2021Article
- iLookOut for Child Abuse: Conceptual and Practical Considerations in Creating an Online Learning Program to Engage Learners and Promote Behavior Change.Early child development and care · 2021Article
- Detection and reporting potential child and youth victimization cases from school: The role of knowledge.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Early childhood care and education providers (CCPs) work with over 7 million young children. These children are vulnerable to physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and neglect. However, CCPs make less than 1% of all reports of suspected child abuse and neglect that are made to child protective services. CCPs are therefore an untapped resource in the public health response to child maltreatment. However, their knowledge and attitudes about duties to report child maltreatment are poorly understood. Moreover, no rigorous research has tested whether their knowledge and attitudes about reporting child maltreatment can be improved. These gaps in knowledge are important because knowledge of the duty and positive attitudes towards it produce more effective reporting, and little evidence exists about how to enhance cognitive and affective attributes. Using the CONSORT approach, we report a single-blind test-retest randomized controlled trial evaluating iLook Out for Child Abuse, a customized online educational intervention for CCPs to increase knowledge and attitudes towards the reporting duty. 762 participants were randomized with results analyzed for 741 participants (372 in the intervention group; 369 in the control). Knowledge of the reporting duty increased in the intervention group from 13.54 to 16.19 out of 21 (2.65 increase, 95% CI: (2.37, 2.93); large effect size 0.95, p < 0.001); the control group remained stable, moving from 13.54 to 13.59 (0.05 increase, 95% CI: (-0.12, 0.22); negligible effect size 0.03, p = 0.684). Attitudes were enhanced on all 13 items for the intervention group, remaining stable in the control, with significant differences between groups on all items (p < 0.05). Gains were largely sustained at four month follow-up. Findings support education for CCPs and other professions. Future research should also explore effects of education on reporting behavior.
trial registrationUS National Institutes of Health NCT02225301.
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