Teacher awareness program on child abuse: a randomized controlled trial.
Teachers have a significant role in preventing, detecting and reporting child abuse and neglect. They are hindered in fulfilling this role by a serious lack of knowledge of the law, of school board policies, and of maltreatment. A comprehensive professional development workshop was developed and presented to elementary school teachers. The package was evaluated by means of a randomized controlled trial. The workshop proved to be effective in increasing and maintaining knowledge.
D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D013663:Teaching