Prevention
Best practice for parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention education in early childhood
Donio Khoshaba
Australian Catholic University
Australian Catholic University
Active Research
Australian Child Maltreatment Study
- Understanding child sexual abuse
- Prevention of child sexual abuse
- Response to child sexual abuse
Research Topic areas
- Community awareness
- Drivers of child sexual abuse
- Intersection with other violence/victimisation
- Online abuse
- Prevalence
Project Duration
Geographical Scope
Nation-wide
Populations
Victims and survivorsGeneral community
Children (6-12 years)Adolescents (13-17 years)Young adults (18-25 years)
Gender
All genders
Project Lead
Professor Ben Mathews, Queensland University of Technology
Project lead email: b.mathews@qut.edu.au
Project Team
Professor Daryl Higgins, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
Professor Michael Dunne, Queensland University of Technology
Background
Reducing the prevalence of child maltreatment offers the greatest opportunity to prevent mental illness, suicide and other serious health problems in the Australian population. The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) is the first Australian prevalence study of child maltreatment. It will look at mental and physical health outcomes and will survey 8,500 Australians aged 16 and over.
Scoping work for the National Office for Child Safety on what any future waves of data collection similar to ACMS, and parallel or sub-studies should like, is almost complete.
Scoping work for the National Office for Child Safety on what any future waves of data collection similar to ACMS, and parallel or sub-studies should like, is almost complete.
Aims
To learn about the prevalence, health and economic burden of child maltreatment.
Methods
Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews
Significance and Dissemination
This comprehensive $2.3 million study of prevalence, health and economic burden of child maltreatment covers the five forms of maltreatment:
• physical abuse
• sexual abuse
• emotional abuse
• neglect
• exposure to domestic violence
• physical abuse
• sexual abuse
• emotional abuse
• neglect
• exposure to domestic violence
Further Details
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Funding body:
National Health and Medical Research Council
National Health and Medical Research Council
Australian Human Research Ethics Committee:
This project is subject to ethical oversight by the Queensland University of Technology Human Research Ethics Committee (ratified by the Australian Catholic University Human Research Ethics Committee)
This project is subject to ethical oversight by the Queensland University of Technology Human Research Ethics Committee (ratified by the Australian Catholic University Human Research Ethics Committee)
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