NCJ Number
106034
Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (1987) Pages: 181-185
Date Published
1987
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This study, built on an earlier project, measured actual behavioral change in reduction of vulnerability to abduction and abuse by strangers through life-like simulations.
Abstract
Three questions were tested. Would trained children still remember their skills 6 months after their program? Would retaining of the prevention program result in mastery by the children who had failed earlier? Could the previous control group repeat the results of their first project? Of the 44 who took the original test, 30 percent took the second test. All those successful 6 months before were successful again in resisting strangers' invitations to leave school. Each of the previous control group was successful in final simulation after the new program. Only two of the four who had failed earlier were retaught successfully. Experimentally based prevention programs are thus immediately and continuingly beneficial. 1 table and 6 references (Author abstract modified)