Sonja Anderson form Midvale Elementary called me back today 11/25/14. She said that the best way to distribute our survey in the schools and educate parents regarding talking to children about sexual abuse is to work through the Canyons School District community school director, Michele Vogler. Sonja has spoken with Michele, and said that it should be a good fit. I think that we should finalize a few details before we talk to Michele. The school will be closed for the rest of the week because of the Thanksgiving holiday, Michele should be available to discuss the project next week.- Diana
Canyons School District Community Schools Coordinator:
Michele Vogler
801-826-5023
michele.vogler@canyonsdistrict.org
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Sample Survey Questions
Here are some survey questions that I came up with, let me know what you think. If we have enough good questions, I think that it would be okay to make the survey longer in order to make it more detailed and inclusive. What do you all think? - Diana
1) What are the age ranges of your children? Please mark all that apply.
a) 0-5
b) 6-10
c) 11-14
d) 15-18
2) Do you see child sexual abuse as rare or unusual?
a) Yes
b) No
3) Is it more common for child sexual abusers to be:
a) A stranger
b) Someone known to the child (family member, family friend, neighbor)ĥ
4) Have you discussed sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
5) Do you feel comfortable discussing sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
6) Do you feel that you have the knowledge and vocabulary to discuss sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
7) Who do you believe should be the primary educator of your child regarding child sexual abuse?
a) school
b) child's friends
c) parents
d) siblings
e) T.V., newspaper, radio
8) What level of risk do you feel your child is at for being the victims of sexual abuse?
a) High
b) Low
9) Where did you receive the information that you will use to educate your child about sexual abuse?
a) T.V., newspaper, radio
b) media
c) doctor
c) child abuse education programs
d) nowhere specific, life lessons learned by growing older
e) other, please specify ____________________________________________
10) Did your parents talk to you about sexual abuse and prevention when you were a child?
a) Yes
b) No
11) Do you feel comfortable discussing child sexual abuse and prevention with your child's pediatrician?
a) Yes
b) No
12) In your household, who would be most likely to talk with your child about sexual abuse?
a) Mother
b) Father
c) Both mother and father together
d) No one
13) Would you find it important and worth your time to take a parent education course regarding how to talk to children about sexual abuse?
a) Yes
b) No
14) How knowledgeable do you feel your child currently is regarding sexual abuse issues and protection strategies?
a) Very high
b) High
c) Moderate
d) Low
e) Very low
15) At what age should children first be introduced to sexual abuse issues, and taught personal safety skills?
a) 1-2 years old
a) Preschool age
b) Elementary school age
c) Middle school age
d) High school age
e) Never, if children are not introduced to problems regarding sexual abuse they are less likely to occur
16) Additional comments regarding this survey.
__________________________________________________________
Here are some survey questions that I came up with, let me know what you think. If we have enough good questions, I think that it would be okay to make the survey longer in order to make it more detailed and inclusive. What do you all think? - Diana
1) What are the age ranges of your children? Please mark all that apply.
a) 0-5
b) 6-10
c) 11-14
d) 15-18
2) Do you see child sexual abuse as rare or unusual?
a) Yes
b) No
3) Is it more common for child sexual abusers to be:
a) A stranger
b) Someone known to the child (family member, family friend, neighbor)ĥ
4) Have you discussed sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
5) Do you feel comfortable discussing sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
6) Do you feel that you have the knowledge and vocabulary to discuss sexual abuse with your child?
a) Yes
b) No
7) Who do you believe should be the primary educator of your child regarding child sexual abuse?
a) school
b) child's friends
c) parents
d) siblings
e) T.V., newspaper, radio
8) What level of risk do you feel your child is at for being the victims of sexual abuse?
a) High
b) Low
9) Where did you receive the information that you will use to educate your child about sexual abuse?
a) T.V., newspaper, radio
b) media
c) doctor
c) child abuse education programs
d) nowhere specific, life lessons learned by growing older
e) other, please specify ____________________________________________
10) Did your parents talk to you about sexual abuse and prevention when you were a child?
a) Yes
b) No
11) Do you feel comfortable discussing child sexual abuse and prevention with your child's pediatrician?
a) Yes
b) No
12) In your household, who would be most likely to talk with your child about sexual abuse?
a) Mother
b) Father
c) Both mother and father together
d) No one
13) Would you find it important and worth your time to take a parent education course regarding how to talk to children about sexual abuse?
a) Yes
b) No
14) How knowledgeable do you feel your child currently is regarding sexual abuse issues and protection strategies?
a) Very high
b) High
c) Moderate
d) Low
e) Very low
15) At what age should children first be introduced to sexual abuse issues, and taught personal safety skills?
a) 1-2 years old
a) Preschool age
b) Elementary school age
c) Middle school age
d) High school age
e) Never, if children are not introduced to problems regarding sexual abuse they are less likely to occur
16) Additional comments regarding this survey.
__________________________________________________________
Survey questions/Facebook distribution
Hello all!
After talking today, I think we overall have plenty of great questions to use in the survey. After speaking to my friend who works for DCFS, he was able to help me write a few more questions that may also be of help:
Who would you report suspected child abuse to? (select all that apply)
a. Child and Family Services
b. Police
c. Church Leadership
d. Family
e. Nobody
-correct answers: a and b
Which of these choices is considered sexual abuse? (select all that apply)
a. A 17 year old having consensual sex with a 16 year old.
b. A 5 year old exploring genetalia with another 5 year old.
c. A minor finds their parent's pornography collection.
d. A parent showering his or her 12 year old daughter with no sexual intent.
e. An adult touches the buttocks of a minor for sexual gratification.
f. None of the above.
-correct answers: c and e
Any report made of child sexual abuse will be kept anonymous unless the informant states otherwise
a. True
b. False
-correct answer: a
Also, once we have this survey completed this weekend, I will post it on the group Facebook page and we can distribute it to friends and ask them to forward it on. Also, I will do my best to send it out to people at random within the Salt Lake area. Hopefully between both approaches we will be able to acquire plenty of response.
Cameron
After talking today, I think we overall have plenty of great questions to use in the survey. After speaking to my friend who works for DCFS, he was able to help me write a few more questions that may also be of help:
Who would you report suspected child abuse to? (select all that apply)
a. Child and Family Services
b. Police
c. Church Leadership
d. Family
e. Nobody
-correct answers: a and b
Which of these choices is considered sexual abuse? (select all that apply)
a. A 17 year old having consensual sex with a 16 year old.
b. A 5 year old exploring genetalia with another 5 year old.
c. A minor finds their parent's pornography collection.
d. A parent showering his or her 12 year old daughter with no sexual intent.
e. An adult touches the buttocks of a minor for sexual gratification.
f. None of the above.
-correct answers: c and e
Any report made of child sexual abuse will be kept anonymous unless the informant states otherwise
a. True
b. False
-correct answer: a
Also, once we have this survey completed this weekend, I will post it on the group Facebook page and we can distribute it to friends and ask them to forward it on. Also, I will do my best to send it out to people at random within the Salt Lake area. Hopefully between both approaches we will be able to acquire plenty of response.
Cameron
Facebook page
Hey all,
I created a Facebook page for our survey group. Sign in with our usual email address and password. I posted a description of our project on the timeline, feel free to make changes as you feel is appropriate. I had to put my personal name in to make the account, but I made it so that all posts, likes, etc will be shown as "Child Abuse Awareness for Parents" rather than my name.
I didn't put a picture, I "liked" the University of Utah and Prevent Child Abuse Utah. It might make us feel a little more legitimate to survey takers if we friended the page or something so they can see that we actually exist.
Any ideas and feedback is welcome! :)
Laurel
I created a Facebook page for our survey group. Sign in with our usual email address and password. I posted a description of our project on the timeline, feel free to make changes as you feel is appropriate. I had to put my personal name in to make the account, but I made it so that all posts, likes, etc will be shown as "Child Abuse Awareness for Parents" rather than my name.
I didn't put a picture, I "liked" the University of Utah and Prevent Child Abuse Utah. It might make us feel a little more legitimate to survey takers if we friended the page or something so they can see that we actually exist.
Any ideas and feedback is welcome! :)
Laurel
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Survey 2.0 + Meeting
We decided that using survey monkey might discourage people from participating as it is a less formal site. I created an account with qualtrics. Their program is much more professional and gives us more information and ways of looking at the reaponses given. Hopefully this change will help parents feel more comfortable with the credibility of our survey. Prevent Child Abuse Utah also gave us permission to add their logo to the survey after they had a chance to approve it. We are still trying to figure out the best way to disseminate it and are looking into using Facebook.
Ian
This week I contacted Jordan School District to ask if they would support us in distributing the child sexual abuse awareness survey for parents in schools, and down the road allow us to hold parent education classes regarding teaching children about sexual abuse. They said no, that their focus is on child education, not parent education.
I then contacted Midvale Elementary School in the Canyons School District. Their principal was not in, and I spoke with Sonja Anderson (801-826-8350), the school social worker, who seemed interested in and supportive of the project. I told her that we are partnering with Prevent Child Abuse Utah. She took notes about our project and said that she would discuss it with the principal and call me back next week. I believe that this will fit well with the community school model at Midvale Elementary School. I will post again when I speak with Sonja again.
Our group met twice this week and made good progress, setting up a new survey site, and a group Facebook page. I set up two google docs for our group presentation, one for the power point, and one for the paper, so that we can work on the presentation together. Good job group! - Diana
Ian
This week I contacted Jordan School District to ask if they would support us in distributing the child sexual abuse awareness survey for parents in schools, and down the road allow us to hold parent education classes regarding teaching children about sexual abuse. They said no, that their focus is on child education, not parent education.
I then contacted Midvale Elementary School in the Canyons School District. Their principal was not in, and I spoke with Sonja Anderson (801-826-8350), the school social worker, who seemed interested in and supportive of the project. I told her that we are partnering with Prevent Child Abuse Utah. She took notes about our project and said that she would discuss it with the principal and call me back next week. I believe that this will fit well with the community school model at Midvale Elementary School. I will post again when I speak with Sonja again.
Our group met twice this week and made good progress, setting up a new survey site, and a group Facebook page. I set up two google docs for our group presentation, one for the power point, and one for the paper, so that we can work on the presentation together. Good job group! - Diana
Friday, November 7, 2014
Great Website and Sample Survey
So, I was pulling up a website on protecting children, and as I did so, a survey popped up... just my luck. I copied their survey to get an idea of how to format our own survey. Check it out.
(Oh, and the website link too! :) ) http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/warning_signs.htm#
(Oh, and the website link too! :) ) http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/warning_signs.htm#
Usage and Evaluation Survey
Thank you for visiting the Parents Protect! website. This short survey will only take a 3 minutes. We really value your feedback which will help us to help others.
Thank you for visiting the Parents Protect! website. This short survey will only take a 3 minutes. We really value your feedback which will help us to help others.
Survey
Survey Questions
Please answer each question on a scale of 1-10.
1 = very low or very little
10 = very high or very much
How safe do you feel that your neighborhood is for your children?
How well do you know your neighbors?
How much do you trust your neighbors?
How often have you spoken with your children about sexual abuse prevention?
How comfortable do you feel about speaking to your children about sexual abuse?
How much does your child know about the dangers of sexual abuse?
What are the ages of your children? (not on a 1-10 scale)
What do you think about making a survey for children as well as adults? This way we could refer to information in the child survey when finding relevant information to teach parents and other adults down the road in our project. - Diana
I think this is a great survey format. It is quite simple and quick to use, which will help ensure that people are more willing to complete it. My main feedback would be that we would need to find the right survey website that would allow us to use a scale of 1-10. I'm not sure that Survey Monkey will do that but we can look further into it. Also, I do have good news. It appears that facebook could be a useful method of randomly distributing the survey. We can easily search for all people within the Salt Lake area and message them at random with the survey. The only thing I think would be necessary for that to work would be to actually set up a facebook page specifically for this project so people believe we are legitimate. What are everyone's thoughts? Thanks and take care! - Cameron
I found an article on what impacts the likelihood of people answering surveys about child abuse. Granted, the survey was to adults about their own childhood experiences and it was quite detailed, but it might be helpful.
I'll keep looking to see if there are more resources that are better fitted to our project. - Laurel
Please answer each question on a scale of 1-10.
1 = very low or very little
10 = very high or very much
How safe do you feel that your neighborhood is for your children?
How well do you know your neighbors?
How much do you trust your neighbors?
How often have you spoken with your children about sexual abuse prevention?
How comfortable do you feel about speaking to your children about sexual abuse?
How much does your child know about the dangers of sexual abuse?
What are the ages of your children? (not on a 1-10 scale)
What do you think about making a survey for children as well as adults? This way we could refer to information in the child survey when finding relevant information to teach parents and other adults down the road in our project. - Diana
I think this is a great survey format. It is quite simple and quick to use, which will help ensure that people are more willing to complete it. My main feedback would be that we would need to find the right survey website that would allow us to use a scale of 1-10. I'm not sure that Survey Monkey will do that but we can look further into it. Also, I do have good news. It appears that facebook could be a useful method of randomly distributing the survey. We can easily search for all people within the Salt Lake area and message them at random with the survey. The only thing I think would be necessary for that to work would be to actually set up a facebook page specifically for this project so people believe we are legitimate. What are everyone's thoughts? Thanks and take care! - Cameron
I found an article on what impacts the likelihood of people answering surveys about child abuse. Granted, the survey was to adults about their own childhood experiences and it was quite detailed, but it might be helpful.
Bias assessment for child abuse survey:: Factors affecting probability of response to a survey about childhood abuse
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213400002386I'll keep looking to see if there are more resources that are better fitted to our project. - Laurel
Survey questions
we are still working on finalizing the survey and figuring out where we will distribute it. I had a personal example this week from my mother in law not knowing where to get information on how to talk to her daughter about if she had experienced any sexual abuse at the hands of their neighbor. She ended up calling the police to ask for what she should do. Fortunately my sister in law was ok, but it just highlighted for me the need for the resources we are trying to put together.
Ian
Ian
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