Taking a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program to Scale: A Cost Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Shipe, Stacey L.; Guastaferro, Kate; Noll, Jennie G.; Connell, Christian M.; Morgan, Paul L.; Crowley, D. Max
Titel	Taking a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program to Scale: A Cost Analysis
Quelle	In: Prevention Science, 23 (2022) 8, S.1394-1403 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1389-4986
DOI	10.1007/s11121-022-01401-4
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Prevention; Program Costs; Cost Effectiveness; Program Implementation; Evidence Based Practice; Elementary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken
Abstract	Cost analyses are used to determine overall costs of implementing evidence-based programming and may help decision makers determine how best to allocate finite resources. Child sexual abuse (CSA), regularly viewed as a human rights violation, is also a public health concern estimated to impact 27% of females and 5% of males by age 18. Universal, school-based CSA programs are one prevailing prevention strategy. However, there are no known cost analyses of school-based CSA prevention programming, thereby limiting potential scalability. Using the ingredients method, this cost analysis presents the findings of implementing "Safe Touches," an evidence-based universal prevention program, across four sites (i.e., counties) in one mid-Atlantic state. Reaching a total of 14,235 s grade students, results indicate an average cost of $43 per student, an average classroom cost of $859, an average district cost of $10,637, and an average site cost of $154,243. There was a noted decrease in costs when more students were reached, suggesting a need to focus efforts on bolstering the reach of implementation efforts. Sensitivity analyses explored variations in implementation constraints such as personnel and facilities suggesting a range of per-student costs (lower-bound per-student cost = $34; upper-bound per-student cost = $64). Findings presented herein may be used to inform future universal CSA prevention efforts by providing detailed information about the costs of large-scale implementation of an evidence-based program among elementary-aged children. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01