Community Based Intervention to Promote Prevention Towards Children Sexual Abuse

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220407.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

child sexual abuse; health; community empowerment; experiential learning

Abstract

Bandung Regency is a region with a high population rate. The increasing amount of population isn’t aligned with the growth of health facilities, including mental health services. Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is one of the biggest problems that has to be dealt with in Bandung Regency. The total case of CSA in Bandung Regency is 203 cases, with children and early adolescents as the victims. One of the villages in Bandung Regency is X Village that has the highest rate of CSA reports and there are many illegal marriages. The authors found some initial findings; 70% of children didn’t get any knowledge from their parents nor teachers to keep their bodies safe from the possibility of sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse has to be resolved socially or through communities. Social interventions must be able to reach crucial aspects in the community so that social problems can be resolved. Thus, we suggest the urgency in the bigger scope of intervention, which is the community intervention approach. The solutions that we offer are a series of intervention programs using the ecological theory of development framework. Following the social intervention principle and ecological framework, we are going to train the village residents, involving the entire schools in the village, creating a community within the village that has sexual abuse prevention agents in it. The activities that we plan aim to build knowledge and skill of the agents of change by using an experiential learning approach using a module as learning media. The goals that we aim to achieve are increasing knowledge, awareness, and skill regarding child sexual abuse prevention. The training was conducted towards 26 participants. This research found several results. First, we found that 6 participants had fair comprehension of the training material, 18 participants categorized as having good comprehension, and 2 participants categorized as having excellent comprehension. Second, all participants had a positive attitude towards the training module. Third, all participants perceived that the module was interesting and easy to understand--and they also had a desire to use it.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Indri Utami Sumaryanti
AU  - Vici Sofianna Putera
AU  - Rizka Hadian Permana
AU  - Suhana Suhana
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/23
TI  - Community Based Intervention to Promote Prevention Towards Children Sexual Abuse
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 189
EP  - 191
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220407.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220407.035
ID  - Sumaryanti2022
ER  -