Abstract
Online sexual abuse of children has severe and lasting implications. In addition to there being many avenues to commit sexual offences via technology, there are many ways to intervene. Industry-related prevention and intervention strategies are often targeted at blocking or catching a potential offender. Justice initiatives through punitive measures are targeted towards the perpetrator. Education and awareness campaigns are a means to prevent abuse before it happens or help a victim come forward to seek support and retribution. A systematic review of the literature will endeavour to find research that emphasizes intervention through education and awareness strategies for children and adolescents, including an analysis of the effectiveness of such programs. This protocol follows PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and provides details of the literature review and research parameters.
Highlights
The World Health Organization defines child sexual abuse as “the involvement of a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or for which the child is not developmentally prepared and cannot give consent...resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power” (WHO, 1999, p.15).Child sexual abuse has significant and lasting impacts
In addition to the aforementioned criteria, Bouvier (2003) proposes the importance of building competencies and resilience in children “with the objective of helping children to recognise abusive situations and disclose victimisation” (p. 446). These findings suggest there are discrepancies in the effectiveness of preventions and interventions, but the approach and intention
The focus will be the studies exploring primary educational and awareness preventions and interventions used for online child sexual abuse
Summary
The World Health Organization defines child sexual abuse as “the involvement of a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or for which the child is not developmentally prepared and cannot give consent...resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power” (WHO, 1999, p.15).Child sexual abuse has significant and lasting impacts. Adults, who were victims of sexual abuse as children, are more likely to experience mental health disorders including substance abuse (Simpson & Miller, 2002), eating disorders (Carter, Bewell, Blackmore, & Woodside, 2006), stress-related sexual dysfunction (Colangelo & Keefe-Cooperman, 2012), anxiety, depression, and suicidal tendencies (Abdulrehman & De Luca, 2001) This adverse childhood experience can correlate to poor physical health outcomes such as heart disease, liver disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Hanson & Adams, 2016). Screen use overall (including video streaming and television) was estimated at just under 5 hours total each day for children ages 8-12, and nearly 7.5 hours for teens ages 13-18 (Rideout & Robb, 2019). This can dramatically increase the risk of online sexual abuse,
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