Preparing Caregivers for the Child Sexual Abuse Examination: Are Informational Leaflets Helpful?

Hackensack Meridian Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Sexual Abuse, Suspected

Treatments: Behavioral: Education Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01850407

07.02.054

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children are typically inadequately prepared for the sexual abuse medical examination. Caregivers report lack of examination knowledge as a barrier to preparing their children. The purpose of this study was to determine if informational leaflets provided prior to the examination are helpful to caregivers in preparing their children.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• consecutive caregivers accompanying children for scheduled sexual abuse medical examination

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of consent
• Failure to complete study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 1 patient group

Education Counseling

No Intervention group

Description:

Education of caregivers to counter lack of Preparedness for Children Undergoing Sexual Abuse Medical Examination

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education Counseling