Awareness on Child Sexual Abuse among Parents of Elementary School Pupils / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practice of child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention education in parents of elementary school pupils.Method:Two hundred and seventy one parents were surveyed by anonymous self-administered questionnaire in five classes of grade 1 to grade 5 of a elementary school. The questions about awareness of CSA and communications on how to prevent CSA with their children were asked.Result:Among this sample, 93.6% of parents approved of school CSA prevention education. Overall, about half parents lack of knowledge of CSA prevention, the communications with their children were also not enough. Only 1.8% of parents had provided books or audiovisuals about CSA prevention for their children. The scores of knowledge, attitudes and practice of CSA prevention education of parents whose parents addressed this in their childhood were significantly higher than those of parents who had no this experience.Conclusions:The research of CSA prevention education in elementary school should be paid more attention, to produce related books and audiovisuals as soon as possible, to increase parents' awareness of CSA prevention.