ALLMedicine™ Child Sexual Abuse Center

May 14th, 2022 - Schools serve a central role in prevention, disclosure and intervention in cases of child sexual abuse (CSA). As school principals often face CSA cases in their daily work, they may hold the key to making social change on this front. However, rese...

May 12th, 2022 - 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 r...

May 5th, 2022 - Researchers have established that rape myths shape perceptions of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases. Researchers have devoted less attention to exploring the impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) myths in court. While we know that jurors bel...

May 4th, 2022 - Middle childhood is a critical period for physical, social, behavioral, and cognitive changes. A positive and healthy sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) foundation can minimize SRHR risks, leading to better outcomes. Our objective is...

May 3rd, 2022 - Governments in multiple countries have established redress schemes to acknowledge institutional responsibility for child maltreatment; to provide survivors with access to compensation, counselling and apologies; and to prompt better practice to pr...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Participants From August 1998 to June 2001, 92 consecutive patients were admitted to a specialized eating disorder unit at a psychiatric hospital, Modum Bad. The admission criteria were symptoms of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating dis...

Apr 29th, 2020 - The purpose of the proposed study is to assess the effectiveness of the addition of a single-session child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention module (Smart Parents - Safe and Healthy Kids) on improving parents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regar...

Jul 8th, 2014 - Our goal in this study is to decrease the severity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms in sexually abused children between the ages of 8-12. We also aim to improve children's quality of life, decrease levels of anxiety and depression as wel...

Jul 4th, 2014 - This study will conduct a rigorous evaluation of the sexual abuse prevention program entitled, "Safe Touches: Personal Safety Training for Children (Safe Touches)." Founded in 2007, Safe Touches was developed for kindergarteners through third grad...

May 8th, 2014 - Child sexual abuse is a serious public health problem that places children at high risk for developing anxiety, mood, conduct, sexual, and substance abuse disorders. It also increases their likelihood of experiencing further victimization. It is i...

Jul 1st, 2021 - Approximately 1 in 5 Americans report childhood sexual abuse. 1 While 50% to 65% of child sexual abuse occurs in the absence of pedophilic interests and is thought to be driven by additional factors such as the availability of an appropriate sexual.

Dec 4th, 2018 - AUSTIN, TEX. – It is important to understand the legislative and social lay of the land for child pornography and related issues, such as sexting and revenge porn, according to Nicole Sussman, MD.

Jan 16th, 2018 - Hello and welcome. I’m Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape. Consider these thoughts to be medical musings after Harvey Weinstein. You might wonder why I am bringing this onerous and revolting topic into the realm of medical discuss...

Aug 4th, 2015 - A brief motivational intervention was unsuccessful for reducing heavy drinking or intimate partner violence in women seeking emergency department (ED) treatment for related injuries, according to a report published online in JAMA. The hope was tha.

Apr 17th, 2015 - (Reuters Health) - Children who learn about preventing sex abuse in school more often report abuse in their own lives than do kids who are not taught about it, according to a new research review. This reinforces the findings of previous reviews, s...