Mobile Applications Development for Prevention of Sexual Abuse

Universitas Padjadjaran

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mobile Application; Child Sexual Abuse

Treatments: Other: MA_PESAN MOBILE APPLICATION

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05737134

NURS-202212.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This interventional study aims to examine the effect of implementing new tools for preventing child sexual abuse (CSA) using a designed digital application for parents/teachers.

The main question of this study is How is the effect of the Mobile Application for Prevention of Sexual Violence in Elementary School-aged Children by Involving the Roles of Parents and School Teachers in West Java on knowledge, attitudes, communication practices, and self-awareness of parents and teachers in West Java.

Two randomized groups of parents will receive or not receive a package of information using a mobile application called MA_PESAN.

The MA_PESAN application is precise and can increase teachers' and parents' knowledge, attitudes, communication practices, and self-awareness about preventing CSA. This application is recommended to be applied in all elementary-level schools.

Full description

There is still a lack of knowledge, attitudes, practices, communication skills, and self-awareness among parents and teachers, so education is needed relating to the prevention of CSA. The need to educate parents and teachers is significant because parents are the first teachers of their children in sexual education. Involving parents in educating children about CSA will be effective in encouraging children to use self-protection skills, enabling children to increase safety in the home environment, communication between parents and their children about sexuality, and screening of caregivers. Parents and teachers are the essential sources of providing information to children. The use of media can affect increased knowledge. Several studies on preventing CSA have proven effective in preventing CSA, such as education using discussion methods, pictures, videos, puppets, and sketches.

Education programs regarding the prevention of CSA in schools need to be introduced and taught through schools by involving parents of students at home and teachers at schools, bearing in mind that currently, there is no specific educational program regarding the prevention of CSA in schools. Social media is the dominant communication tool in the 4.0 era. Support can be offered in schools through appropriate methods of preventing CSA due to its broad reach and impact on children's lives. The method is education on the prevention of CSA by using the Mobile Application for Prevention of CSA in Schools (MA_PESAN), which will be developed in this research. The MA_PESAN educational method is education that uses an application intended for parents of students and teachers. The content used in the MA_PESAN material contains material related to the prevention of CSA, the age of children to start being taught CSA prevention, who are the perpetrators/predators of CSA, whether the perpetrators are adults or fellow children, the importance of communication between parents and teachers and children, and eliminating cultural taboos in inform CSA that other studies in the contents of the research material have not carried out.

Enrollment: 301 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents who have elementary school children
• Parents who have an android smartphone and use WhatsApp
• Parents can read
• Parents understand Indonesian
• Have not been exposed to the MA_PESAN educational method

Exclusion criteria

• Have physical limitations in using a smartphone
• Parents suffer from illness (are sick)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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301 participants in 2 patient groups

MA_PESAN APPLICATION

Experimental group

Description:

The content of MA_PESAN includes an understanding of children, children's rights, sexual understanding, the definition of CSA, forms of CSA, the prevalence of CSA, the impact of CSA, risk factors for the occurrence of CSA, the importance of communication with children, who are the perpetrators/predators of CSA, efforts to prevent CSA. The material is presented in the form of text, images, stop motion videos about the prevention of CSA and videos of the jargon "TANGKIS", songs about "permissible and unacceptable touches", TikTok about "permissible and prohibited touches", and discussion columns. The MA_PESAN intervention was carried out for 9 days.

Treatment:

Other: MA_PESAN MOBILE APPLICATION

common information from the school

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group was given intervention according to the procedure at each elementary school. However, information was provided regarding preventing child sexual violence under the procedures usually carried out in each elementary school. The time spent was the same as the intervention group.