Unpacking School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs: A Realist Review.

ABSTRACT: Background: Existing efforts to understand school-based child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention programs mainly focus on the effectiveness of these programs in increasing participants' CSA knowledge and self-protective skills. There are currently no reviews addressing the underpinning pathways leading to these outcomes. In order to increase our understanding about the underpinning causal and contextual factors and inform the further development of school-based CSA prevention programs, a realist review was conducted to synthesize existing evidence from a broad range of data. Methods: An iterative search of electronic databases and grey literature was conducted, supplemented with citation tracking to locate relevant literature. For quantitative evidence, we considered evaluation st

SUBMITTER: Lu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10486164 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature