Effect E-learning Program About Child Maltreatment

UMC Utrecht

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Child Abuse

Treatments: Other: E-learning program

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00844571

170883

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the e-learning program about the recognition of child maltreatment is effective in nurses on the A&E department compared to a control group.

Full description

Child abuse and neglect represents an international problem with high prevalence and unacceptable levels of morbidity and mortality. Many children are seen each day in the accident and emergency departement of an hospital. Therefore the A&E departement have an important role in the identification of child maltreatment. The lack of an effective teaching program together with the failures in the child protection process has encouraged the development of a clinical-practice-oriented e-learning program on detecting child maltreatment. We will investigate the effect of this e-learning program.

Enrollment: 38 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Working at the A&E department of the UMC-Utrecht.

Exclusion criteria

• Absent during one of the two measurement periods.

Trial design

38 participants in 2 patient groups

E-learning program

Description:

Participants are committed to accomplish the program in approximately 2 hours. Additionally to these mandatory hours, they were able to access the e-learning program at any time and place.

Treatment:

Other: E-learning program

control group