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Using direct observation and measurement of behavioral change, it evaluates children before and after prevention education. The study correlates behavioral responses from staged real-world simulations, including leaving the school with a stranger, with more traditional effectiveness measures, alongside assessments of language, self-esteem, and safety concepts.","MEASURING ACTUAL REDUCTION OF RISK TO CHILDABUSE:A NEW APPROACH  \nGEORGE E.FRYER,JR.,M.A.,M.S.W.  \nInstructor of Family Medicine and Pediatrics and Coordinator of Research.University of Colorado School of Medicine.Denver  \nSHERRYLL KERNS KRAIZER,M.S.  \nDirector and President of Health Education Systems,Inc..Palisades.NY  \nTHOMAS MIYOSHI,M.S.W.  \nKempe National Center.Department of Pediatrics.University of Colorado School of Medicine.Denver  \nAbstract—Previous efforts to measure the effectiveness of child abuse prevention programs have relied onproximate measures presumed to be predictive of actual skills.This paper presents documentation that bringsthose assumptions into question.describes actual observation and measurement of behavioral change in chil-dren before and after prevention education.and correlates that behavioral response with more traditional mea-sures of effectiveness.Unique to the evaluation was the staging of an actual situation in which each of theechildren had an opportunity to leave the school building with a stranger.Each simulation was videotaped andconducted in such a way that the children remained unaware of the fact that they had been tested.In additiontests of language development.self-esteem and knowledge of prevention and safety concepts were administeredbefore and after paricipating in the Children Need to Know Personal Safety Training Program [1].Severalfindings have significant value for future examinations and programming.The effectiveness of a primary pre-vention program based on age-appropriate,experiential and interactive instruction was empirically docu-mented.Traditional instrumentation which elicits written or verbal responses to cognitive questions about safetymay be misleading in assessing children's vulnerability.Higher self-esteem before instruction and higher knowl-edge/attitude scores after instruction were found to be predictive of a reduction in vulnerability.While this is asignificant series of findings.some children did not achieve the objectives of the prevention program.Theseresults suggest further possibilities for evaluation and some direction for improving prevention education.  \nResumé—Jusqu'à ce jour quand on voulait quantifier I'efficacité dun programme préventif de maltraitance.onse fondait surtout sur une appreciation approximative et immédiate qui etait censee avoir une valeur predictivequant aux compelences reelles acquises grace au programme.Le présent article apporte des donnees qui fontdouter de la validite de telles estimations:ces donnees resultent de I'observation dun réel changement decomportement des enfants soumis a un programme educatif de prevention avant et apres I'application du ditprogramme:le changement de comportement est mis en relation avec des estimations plus traditionnelles dei'efficacité.Ce qu'il y avait dunique dans cette evaluation.c'était la mise en place d'une situation reelle danslaquelle chacun des enfants testes avait I'occasion de quitter le batiment de leur ecoie accompagné par unetranger.Cette simulation etait enregistree sur bande vidéo et conduite de telle sorte que les enfants impliquésne se doutaient pas qu ils etaient en train d'etre soumis à un test.En plus avant et apres la participation desenfants au programme de prevention intitule \"Les enfants doivent connaitre les règles de la sécurité person-nelle.\"des tests du developpement du langage.de l'appréciation de soi-meme et de la connaissance de conceptsde prévention et de securité etaient administrés aux enfants.Plusieurs des observations faites pourront servir àde futures evaluations et programmations.On a ainsi obtenu par une méthode empirique une evaluation deI'efficacité d'un programme de prevention primaire fonde sur une instruction appropriee a l'age.experientialet interactive.L'instrumentation traditionnelle qui conduit a obtenir des reponses orales ou ecrites a des ques-  \ntions formeliles sur la secunité personnelle pouraient bien induire en ereur en ce qui concerne I'eva","cbCaivtWujavv3bZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivtWujavv3bZ","pdf",771526,3,1,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# Methods\n## Participants and design","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper question traditional measures of child abuse prevention program effectiveness?\",\"answer\":\"Traditional evaluations often use proximate written or verbal responses that may not accurately reflect children’s vulnerability in real situations. 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