Counselling and Reproductive Health Research Centre, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shohada Hospital of Quchan, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Quchan, Iran.
Child Abuse Negl. 2020 Nov;109:104695. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104695. Epub 2020 Aug 30.
Parents play an important role in protecting their children from sexual abuse. Mothers, in particular, play key roles in the sexual socialization of their children and in educating their children about child sexual abuse (CSA).
The purpose of this study was to determine whether preschool girls in Gorgan (a city in northern Iran) could learn personal safety skills when taught by their mothers.
Fifty-six participants (mother-daughter pairs) were recruited from patients visiting health centers. Mean age of girls was 6.34 years.
Girls were pretested using Persian versions of the Personal Safety Questionnaire and 'What If' Situations Test, randomly assigned to either a mother-taught program or wait-list control, and post-tested. Mothers assigned to the education group participated in a two-hour workshop on preventing CSA and were given the Body Safety Training workbook to teach their daughters. Following the one-week training by their mothers, children in both groups were post-tested and follow-up tested one month later.
Children taught by their mothers demonstrated significant increases in knowledge about sexual abuse and higher levels of personal safety skills compared to controls, and these gains were maintained at the one-month follow-up.
Results suggest that mothers can effectively teach their young daughters personal safety skills. Difficulties female children have in recognizing appropriate-touch requests are discussed and compared to results in other developing countries. Advantages of home-based instruction for young children are described and suggestions for increasing parent participation are offered.
父母在保护孩子免受性虐待方面发挥着重要作用。母亲在孩子的性社会化和对孩子进行儿童性虐待（CSA）教育方面发挥着关键作用。
本研究旨在确定在伊朗北部戈尔甘市（一个城市）的学龄前女孩是否可以通过母亲的教导来学习个人安全技能。
从前往健康中心就诊的患者中招募了 56 名参与者（母亲-女儿对）。女孩的平均年龄为 6.34 岁。
女孩们使用波斯语版的个人安全问卷和“如果”情境测试进行了预测试，随机分配到母亲教授的课程或候补名单对照组，并进行了后测试。被分配到教育组的母亲参加了一个关于预防 CSA 的两小时研讨会，并获得了身体安全教育手册，以教导他们的女儿。在母亲进行为期一周的培训后，两组儿童都进行了后测试，并在一个月后进行了随访测试。
与对照组相比，接受母亲教导的儿童在性虐待知识方面有显著提高，个人安全技能水平也有所提高，并且这些提高在一个月的随访中得以维持。
研究结果表明，母亲可以有效地教导年幼的女儿个人安全技能。讨论了女童在识别适当触摸请求方面的困难，并与其他发展中国家的结果进行了比较。描述了针对幼儿的家庭式指导的优势，并提出了增加家长参与的建议。
