Abstract

Currently, primary prevention efforts for child sexual abuse (CSA) are mostly done as general education program for children at school. The program is criticized for placing responsibility of child protection solely on the children and rarely involves family, community, and children’s surrounding neighborhood. This study aimed to examine CSA psychoeducational prevention toward kindergarteners parents’ knowledge after an intervention in form of psychoeducational leaflets and booklets. The study was quasi-experimental study with the one group pretest-posttest design. Twenty six parents of kindergarteners participated in the study. Istruments used for the study was CSA knowledge test. Quantitative analysis was used to describe the difference of kindergarteners parents’ knowledge before and after the program (p=0.006, p<0.05). Psychoeducation with booklet and leaflet was able to improve kindergarteners parents’ knowledge on CSA prevention.

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