University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 66, Al-Khod 123, Oman.
University of Nebraska Medical Center, 801 E. Benjamin Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701-0469, United States of America.
Child Abuse Negl. 2021 Dec;122:105342. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105342. Epub 2021 Sep 29.
Schoolteachers are in a good position to identify and report suspected child abuse and neglect cases; however, they still fail to report all the cases. Recently, the Sultanate of Oman, which is a collectivistic culture, mandated schoolteachers to report any suspected case. However, there is a lack of evidence known to us about the factors associated with Omani teachers' reporting behavior. Such evidence is needed to inform the interventions that are designed to enhance teachers' reporting behavior.
The current study was designed to address this gap by exploring the factors that affect Omani schoolteachers reporting behavior of suspected child abuse and neglect cases.
A total of 26 participants were recruited from five basic education schools in the Muscat governorate in Oman.
This is a descriptive qualitative study. Five focus group discussions were conducted. Thematic coding was used for data analysis.
Three themes were discerned from the data analysis. The factors that affect Omani schoolteachers as described by the participants were: 1) reporting within an environment of educational resource scarcity; 2) reporting within an environment of competing female social roles and their professional reporting role; and 3) reporting within an environment of complex and diverse abuse and neglect cases.
Our findings highlight the role of culture in reporting behavior. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
教师处于识别和报告疑似虐待和忽视儿童案件的有利位置；然而，他们仍未能报告所有案件。最近，阿曼苏丹国（一个集体主义文化国家）授权教师报告任何疑似案件。然而，我们缺乏已知的与阿曼教师报告行为相关的因素的证据。需要这些证据来为旨在增强教师报告行为的干预措施提供信息。
本研究旨在通过探讨影响阿曼学校教师报告疑似虐待和忽视儿童案件的行为因素来填补这一空白。
总共从阿曼马斯喀特省的五所基础教育学校招募了 26 名参与者。
这是一项描述性的定性研究。进行了五次焦点小组讨论。使用主题编码进行数据分析。
从数据分析中得出了三个主题。参与者描述的影响阿曼学校教师的因素是：1）在教育资源匮乏的环境中报告；2）在竞争的女性社会角色及其专业报告角色的环境中报告；3）在复杂多样的虐待和忽视案件的环境中报告。
我们的研究结果强调了文化在报告行为中的作用。讨论了对研究和实践的影响。
