title: Evaluation of a third grade sexual abuse curriculum.
abstract: This paper presents results from a third grade sexual abuse prevention program. A 24-item questionnaire was administered as a pretest and post-test to an experimental group (n = 236) and a control group (n = 195) of third grade students. Those receiving the sexual abuse prevention program significantly increased their sexual abuse knowledge scores from pretest to post-test. In addition, differences in knowledge were significantly higher in the experimental compared to the control group. Students who received the sexual abuse curriculum significantly improved from pretest to post-test on their behavioral intention scores. Results from this evaluation indicated a modest improvement can be obtained through use of this two-hour sexual abuse prevention curriculum.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Health Promotion and Human Performance, University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Telljohann
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Everett
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Price
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D009042:Motivation; D009820:Ohio; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012572:School Health Services; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric