Effect E-learning Program About Child Maltreatment

UMC Utrecht38 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the e-learning program about the recognition of child maltreatment is effective in nurses on the A\&E department compared to a control group.

Child abuse and neglect represents an international problem with high prevalence and unacceptable levels of morbidity and mortality. Many children are seen each day in the accident and emergency departement of an hospital. Therefore the A\&E departement have an important role in the identification of child maltreatment. The lack of an effective teaching program together with the failures in the child protection process has encouraged the development of a clinical-practice-oriented e-learning program on detecting child maltreatment. We will investigate the effect of this e-learning program.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Child Abuse

Interventions

E-learning programOTHER

Participants are committed to accomplish the program in approximately 2 hours. Additionally to these mandatory hours, they were able to access the e-learning program at any time and place.

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Working at the A\&E department of the UMC-Utrecht. Exclusion Criteria: * Absent during one of the two measurement periods.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Clinical behaviour on the A&E department, self-efficacy of the nurse in the detection of child abuse and assessment of the individual performance on screening child abuse.

Time frame: 2-3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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