Professionals in the area of child sexual assault prevention have been concerned about reducing this phenomena risk by arming children with assertive skills, healthy self-concepts and prevention tactics and information. The primary purpose of this dissertation was to determine from which disseminator children were able to learn greater amounts of sexual abuse prevention guidelines. The research question addressed differences in outcome on the Information Dissemination Questionnaire, (IDQ), based upon the information disseminator. / One hundred and twenty-one children were randomly assigned to the following three comparison groups: a group trained by a designated independent resource in a school setting; a group trained by parents who had attended the parent training, and a minimal treatment group. All three groups of children initially viewed the film, "No More Secrets." Children in the first experimental group received additional information from a designated independent resource in a school setting in a presentation entitled, "Safety Rules." Parents of children in the second experimental group were trained in the school setting by the same designated independent resource in a presentation titled, "How to Talk to Your Children About Sexual Abuse." These parents were then asked to discuss the information with their children in Group B within the two weeks following the training. The parent training included a viewing of the film, "No More Secrets," a lecture entitled, "How to Talk to your Children about Sexual Abuse;" and (for modeling purposes) a videotape of the independent resource discussing the film, "No More Secrets," with the children of the first experimental group. Children in this group also saw the film. Children in the minimal treatment group only viewed the film. / All three groups of children participated in pre- and post-testing using the Information Dissemination Questionnaire as the outcome measure. Data was analyzed through a Chi$\sp2$ for for each item on the IDQ. Significant results were obtained on IDQ items 7, 8 and 9. Treatment C primarily contributed to significant results on item 7. Treatment B contributed to significant results on items 8 and 9. Non-significant results were obtained on IDQ items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, and 13. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.) / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-03, Section: A, page: 0629. / Major Professor: F. Donald Kelly. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77952 |
| Contributors | Tice, Janice Lee., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 135 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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