Clinical Research Directory

Talking for Change: Secondary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration

The goal of this patient preference randomized controlled trial is to investigate the efficacy of Talking for Change (TFC), an intervention for the secondary prevention of child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSA) perpetration. Blinded clinical raters will evaluate the primary endpoint-reductions in dynamic risk factors for sexual offending against children-and clients will provide self-reports to evaluate a second primary outcome-reductions in sexual contact with children, accessing online child sexual exploitation material (CSEM), and desire for sexual contact with children. Researchers will compare the following groups: (1) those receiving 20 weeks of the experimental TFC group psychotherapy; (2) those receiving 20 weeks of a control group psychotherapy targeting mental health and stress more broadly; and (3) those receiving no treatment.

Parent-focused Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of a parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention program (Smart Parents) delivered to parents enrolled in a parent education program (Parents as Teachers; PAT). The main questions the trial aims to answer are: 1. Does PAT + Smart Parents improve parents' CSA-related awareness and protective behaviors compared to PAT as usual? 2. Are potential gains maintained 12- and 24-months post intervention? 3. What parent-, provider-, and organizational-level factors hold promise for future dissemination and implementation efforts?

Mi Bridge - Motivational Interviewing to Facilitate Help-seeking Among Individuals with Sexual Interest in Children

The overall aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Mi Bridge to motivate high risk participants to admit to treatment. The main research question is: Is Mi Bridge, an anonymous online program based on the principles for Motivational Interviewing, effective in making high risk individuals for committing child sexual abuse prone to seek treatment for problems related to sexual interest involving children at a health care facility?

To Disclose a Child Sexual Abuse Within Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Services

Mental health professionals investigating child sexual abuse (CSA) among children and adolescents is a major public health challenge. Many studies have shown the obstacles to disclose, with professionals having difficulties to address this issue and survivors having difficulties to disclose. Many children, old enough to tell what happened to them, would disclose this traumatic event only many years after, but they suffer from psychiatric and/or somatic disorders meanwhile. CSA survivors presenting psychiatric symptoms very often receive a psychiatric treatment within child \& adolescent psychiatric (CAP) departments. The investigators aim to better understand what is at stakes around the issue of disclosure of CSA by teenagers within CAP services, so to draw concrete implications to improve investigation efficacy and disclosure support by mental health professionals. To date, no study has ever explored these issues of investigating and disclosing CSA in CAP services. Qualitative methods are quite relevant here, aiming as they do, to in-depth explore complex issues, through the lived experience of the stakeholders. The main objective of this study is to explore the lived experience of disclosing CSA among (i) adolescents and young adults followed in a CAP service, (ii) parents, and (iii) child \& adolescent mental health professionals working in CAP services who have experienced a CSA disclosure. Crossing perspectives will bring answers to the complex question: "how to disclose a CSA within a CAP service?" and will lead to concrete implications to improve treatment of children and adolescents with an history of CSA. It is an exploratory qualitative multi-center design following the IPSE approach - Inductive Process to analyze the structure of lived experience-.

Evaluation of HRP Among Pre-K Through 5th Grade

This study is a rigorous experimental evaluation of an existing manualized universal child sexual abuse primary prevention program with a history of 30+ years of implementation across 30 states and robust pilot data.