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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Research Inconclusive About Effectiveness of Child Education Programs

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 26, 1996
Report No. GGD-96-156
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Summary:

A growing number of studies are being done on the effectiveness of child sexual abuse education programs. The most optimistic reviews have concluded that education programs showed some promise for informing children about sexual abuse, as well as teaching them personal safety skills to help them avoid being abused. However, nearly all these reviews reported that definitive conclusions could not be drawn because no study had yet developed measures of whether these programs succeeded in reducing the incidence of child sexual abuse. There was general agreement that more and better research was needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of sexual abuse education programs. GAO issued a related report in June 1996 on the effectiveness of treatment programs for sex offenders (GAO/GGD-96-137).

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