We are planning an evaluation of an intervention that is designed to increase kindergarten staff's ability to identify and manage concerns of child maltreatment (i.e., maltreatment of kids attending their kindergarten).
Learning outcomes include a) increased knowledge about child maltreatment (e.g., signs of maltreatment); b) ability to manage concerns of abuse (e.g., filing a report to child protective services, speaking with the child or parents, etc.), and c) an improved organizational culture where one may discuss concerns of maltreatment openly, with a sense of collegial support.
Considering these outcomes, does anyone have any suggestions for existing self-report measures that may be suitable? I haven't really found anyone that directly addresses these issues. All comments are welcome!
Kind regards,
-Lasse
Hi Peter,
Thank you for your answer! To clarify: I am not looking for measures that assess history of child maltreatment. I am looking for measures that assess kindergarten staff's ability to identify and manage concerns of child maltreatment. So the measure will be administered to kindergarten staff.
Best,
-Lasse
I feel like you would have to make your own as this would be part of culturally responsive teaching and is a fairly new concept. Maybe administering a survey of like scenarios and questions? Ex: a student seems anxious whenever there are loud noises or people yelling. What would you derive from that observation? The response should be that the student may be getting yelled at excessively at home or their parents fight a lot, so having a check in with the student and alerting the counselor and principal would be necessary.
Some example questions would be: I am on the look out for cuts and bruises on my students every morning (rating scale), I pay attention to when my students talk about home and parents and siblings, I know whether my students eat breakfast and lunch. Hope that helps.
Hi Alicia Beachy
Thank you for your response! I think you're right; we have to develop an outcome measure specifically for our project. But I wanted to make sure there weren't any similar measures already developed and available.
Your examples are good, and in line with what we are thinking (i.e., some type of Likert scale questionnaire that taps into the various outcome of interest). Thanks again!
Best,
-Lasse
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