A randomized control trial of a child abuse mandated reporter training: Knowledge and attitudes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite being well-positioned to identify maltreatment in the children that they provide care for and being legally required to report suspected child maltreatment, early childhood professionals (ECPs) make a limited proportion of reports to child protective services. It is critical to identify evidence-based interventions to improve the reporting practices of this group of mandated reporters allowing for the better protection of children from maltreatment.

Objective

The goal of the present study was to determine if iLookOut, an online child abuse identification and reporting training for ECPs, results in differential gains in knowledge and attitudes towards child abuse and its reporting among ECPs, as compared to an online standard training.

Participants and s

SUBMITTER: Humphreys KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8360385 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature