Authors/Year Participants Sampling Strategy Design Assessment Findings/Factors identified Methodological Strengths Methodological Limitations Factors Allington, 1992 N=107 Returns from postal Questionnaire Questions provided in 14% of staff reported not Large sample. No questionnaire validity or survey. assessments. appendices. knowing what to do in a sexual reliability information abuse situation. provided. Staff working in residential and day facilities for One third of staff would like Sample represented one third AWLD. teaching on sexual abuse. of questionnaires sent. Bowman, Scotti N= 124 Participants were Pre and post training Participants completed a Post training: Large sample. Participants were mainly and Morris, recruited through questionnaire variety of demographic young females and therefore 2010 attendance in assessments. information questions, not representative of Direct care staff or Staff showed significant voluntary sexual the Sexual Abuse population most likely to supervisors from increase in sexual abuse awareness Attitudes and abuse. day centres or awareness however, scores training. Knowledge residential group remained low. Questionnaire (SAAKQ) home settings for Study did not report GPS pre and the Global AWLD. or post test scores; it is Staff rated themselves as only Perceptions Scale (GPS). therefore difficult to make having an amount of ‘average assumptions about staff knowledge’ of sexual abuse in general attitudes towards AWLD. AWLD. There was no significant Study experienced participant change post training with drop out before post regards to staff attitudes about workshop measures could be AWLD as measured by the completed. GPS. Brown, Hunt N=94 Participants attended Questionnaire Questionnaire 70% of could remember Administering the Staff may have felt and Stein, 1994 a group providing an assessments. information not almost nothing of their questionnaire in the context uncomfortable giving honest introduction to a included. Some employee’s sexuality of the group increased the responses and real life case Staff from health Sexual Abuse questions are provided guidelines. likelihood of returns. examples in front of service districts Project. throughout the course of colleagues. This may have working across a the article. increased concerns around number of settings Staff respondents identified Data were gathered from a confidentiality. including irregular or temporary staff as range of employees. domiciliary and more likely to abuse AWLD. residential No data is provided as to the Large sample. services for overall response rate. AWLD. Administering questionnaire in the context of a special interest group could have resulted in selection bias.
Authors/Year Participants Sampling Strategy Design Assessment Findings/Factors identified Methodological Strengths Methodological Limitations Factors Allington, 1992 N=107 Staff working in residential and day facilities for AWLD. Returns from postal survey. Questionnaire assessments. Questions provided in appendices. 14% of staff reported not knowing what to do in a sexual abuse situation. One third of staff would like teaching on sexual abuse. Large sample. No questionnaire validity or reliability information provided. Sample represented one third of questionnaires sent. Bowman, Scotti and Morris, 2010 N= 124 Direct care staff or supervisors from day centres or residential group home settings for AWLD. Participants were recruited through attendance in voluntary sexual awareness training. Pre and post training questionnaire assessments. Participants completed a variety of demographic information questions, the Sexual Abuse Attitudes and Knowledge Questionnaire (SAAKQ) and the Global Perceptions Scale (GPS). Post training: Staff showed significant increase in sexual abuse awareness however, scores remained low. Staff rated themselves as only having an ‘average amount of knowledge’ of sexual abuse in AWLD. There was no significant change post training with regards to staff attitudes about AWLD as measured by the GPS. Large sample. Participants were mainly young females and therefore not representative of population most likely to abuse. Study did not report GPS pre or post test scores; it is therefore difficult to make assumptions about staff general attitudes towards AWLD. Study experienced participant drop out before post workshop measures could be completed. Brown, Hunt and Stein, 1994 N=94 Staff from health service districts working across a number of settings including domiciliary and residential services for AWLD. Participants attended a group providing an introduction to a Sexual Abuse Project. Questionnaire assessments. Questionnaire information not included. Some questions are provided throughout the course of the article. 70% of could remember almost nothing of their employee’s sexuality guidelines. Staff respondents identified irregular or temporary staff as more likely to abuse AWLD. Administering the questionnaire in the context of the group increased the likelihood of returns. Data were gathered from a range of employees. Large sample. Staff may have felt uncomfortable giving honest responses and real life case examples in front of colleagues. This may have increased concerns around confidentiality. No data is provided as to the overall response rate. Administering questionnaire in the context of a special interest group could have resulted in selection bias.
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