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A national educational campaign to raise awareness of child physical abuse among health care professionals.

Abstract：

:Education is necessary to improve child physical abuse detection and management. A few studies have described national child abuse training programs, but none has measured changes in knowledge among participants. A collaboration of child abuse experts from the USA, an academic pediatric department, and a non-governmental organization in child protection aimed at (a) training hospital physicians in a train-the-trainer course for the detection and management of child physical abuse and (b) conducting workshops and measuring attendance and gain of knowledge of participants. A train-the-trainer and a national curriculum were created. A 78-item and a 20-item knowledge questionnaire were used pre and post the train-the-trainer course and all workshops, respectively. Nineteen physicians from all pediatric departments of the seven medical schools in Greece attended the course. Eight workshops in seven cities took place with a total attendance of 1220 health care professionals. Gain of knowledge was demonstrated for participants in the train-the-trainer course (p = 0.0015) and local workshops (p < 0.001).Conclusion: We successfully engaged physicians from all medical schools in Greece and conducted a train-the-trainer module and eight workshops in major cities that improved the participants' knowledge in child physical abuse. This approach may help address physician deficiencies in emerging areas of child abuse clinical practice. What is Known: • Education is necessary to improve child physical abuse detection and management. • Although national training programs have been described, none has measured participants' changes in knowledge. What is New: • A collaboration of child abuse experts, all medical schools in Greece, and a non-governmental organization resulted in a national educational campaign in child physical abuse and gains in knowledge for participants. • This approach may help address deficiencies in emerging areas of clinical practice.

journal_name

Eur J Pediatr

journal_title

European journal of pediatrics

authors

Soldatou A,Stathi A,Panos A,Paouri B,Koutsoukou E,Krepis P,Tsolia M,Oral R,Leventhal JM

doi

10.1007/s00431-020-03625-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1395-1402

issue

eissn

0340-6199

issn

1432-1076

pii

10.1007/s00431-020-03625-4

journal_volume

179

pub_type

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A national educational campaign to raise awareness of child physical abuse among health care professionals.