Chen Jing Qi, Chen Da Guang
Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Health Educ Res. 2005 Oct;20(5):540-7. doi: 10.1093/her/cyh012. Epub 2005 Feb 8.
Several recent studies on child sexual abuse (CSA) in Chinese society have shown that the problem is not uncommon, and is associated with poor mental health and health-related risk behaviors of abused youth. It is very important to understand and improve public awareness of CSA prevention, especially for the parents. However, there are few published reports on the problem of parents' awareness. To fill this gap, knowledge, attitudes and practice of CSA prevention education were explored in 385 parents of Grade 3 pupils from four schools in Fuxin City of Liaoning Province in the northeast part of China by self-administered anonymous questionnaires. Among this sample, more than 80% of parents approved of school CSA prevention education. However, at the same time, 47.3% of parents expressed some concern that this education may induce the children to learn too much about 'sex'. Overall, about 60% of parents had told their children that their 'private parts' should not be touched by others and discussed strategies of 'Say "No!", Leave and Tell' in dealing with CSA situations or the situations that may lead to CSA. Only 4.2% of parents had provided books or other material about CSA prevention for their children. The parents' CSA prevention knowledge was inadequate. The findings from this research will be useful in developing CSA prevention education programs in schools and communities, designed to improve parents' knowledge and practice of CSA prevention.
近期几项针对中国社会儿童性虐待（CSA）的研究表明，该问题并不罕见，且与受虐青少年的心理健康不佳及与健康相关的危险行为有关。了解并提高公众对CSA预防的认识非常重要，尤其是对家长而言。然而，关于家长意识问题的公开报道很少。为填补这一空白，通过自行填写匿名问卷，对中国东北部辽宁省阜新市四所学校的385名三年级学生家长进行了CSA预防教育的知识、态度和实践调查。在这个样本中，超过80%的家长赞成学校开展CSA预防教育。然而，与此同时，47.3%的家长表示担心这种教育可能会让孩子过多了解“性”。总体而言，约60%的家长告诉过孩子其“私处”不应被他人触碰，并讨论了在应对CSA情况或可能导致CSA的情况时“说‘不！’、离开并告知”的策略。只有4.2%的家长为孩子提供过有关CSA预防的书籍或其他材料。家长的CSA预防知识不足。本研究结果将有助于制定学校和社区的CSA预防教育项目，以提高家长对CSA预防的知识和实践水平。
