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A Systematic Review of the Education and Awareness Interventions to Prevent Online Child Sexual Abuse

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Patterson, Anastasia, Ryckman, Leah, Guerra, Cristóbal·2022·Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
DOI 10.1007/s40653-022-00440-xPMC PMC9360366
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Online child sexual abuse is highly prevalent in current society, in part, due to how technologically advanced children and adults have become. While much of the focus has been on perpetrator intervention, it is prudent to consider responses safeguarding children from potential perpetrators. Therefore, this review aimed to identify all the available empirical research on the prevention methods linked to education and awareness to determine the approaches' effectiveness, successes, and failures to aid future interventions. Databases were systematically searched for studies published between 2000 to 2020. Nine studies providing different prevention methods for online child sexual abuse were selected. A total sample of n = 672 and a descriptive approach was used for this study. While the interventions seemed to improve knowledge retainment of online safety, there was no significant change for risky online behavior. These findings provide specific suggestions for future interventions, particularly those focusing on risky online behaviors.

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  • Some educational approaches for the prevention of online child sexual abuse are able to demonstrate knowledge retainment for online safety, but this was not accompanied by reductions in risky online behaviors.

    “Empirically, a systematic review shows that some educational approaches for the prevention of online child sexual abuse are indeed able to demonstrate knowledge retainment for online safety; however, this was not accompanied by reductions in risky online behaviors (Patterson et al., 2022).”

    From 3.2 Sexual Online Grooming of Children – A Short Overview of the Offender Literature (2025) · cites this paper as Patterson et al., 2022

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Authors
Patterson, A., Ryckman, L., & Guerra, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
  • Universidad Santo Tomás (CL)
Corresponding author
Patterson, Anastasia
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Venue
Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-01-28
Volume
15
Issue
3
Pages
857-867
ISSN
  • 1936-1521 (ISSN-L)
  • 1936-153X
DOI
10.1007/s40653-022-00440-x
PMC
PMC9360366
OpenAlex
W4210403989
Cited by
55
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
FWCI
2.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Keywords
online child sexual abuse, prevention interventions, awareness education, child online safety, risky online behavior, child protection, knowledge retention

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