McCarthy and - - Discussion/Commentary - Sexual abuse training for staff - Paper is based on ideas Thompson, is short and there is little follow developed through experience 1996 up. working in the area of sexuality and sexual abuse of AW LD settings. No evidence. Mainly focuses on sexual abuse. Owen, N=32 Voluntary Questionnaire Questionnaire was Staff considered face-to-face Provides details of Participants had been Griffiths, participation assessment likert developed with hugging acceptable when there questionnaire development interviewed previously for the Feldman, scale format. participant population had been a long association and content. development of the 14 members of and Richards, through thematic with the consumer. questionnaire potentially and 18 2000 analysis of semi leading to demand consumers from Participants were structured interviews. characteristics. community Half of the staff interviewed representative of both residential did not mind being patted on genders of staff. services for Questionnaire assessed the leg by a consumer. Does not clearly describe AWLD. consumers and staff sampling strategy and judgements of participant recruitment. appropriateness of social behaviours towards him/herself by different individuals. Thompson, N=5 Unspecified Pilot study using Unspecified Staff appraise appropriateness - Female sample not Clare and structured interviews to of forms of touching including representative. Does not Brown, 1997 look at boundaries kissing, holding hands, hugging include sampling strategy. Female support between male client and and sitting on laps by making a workers working female staff member. judgement about which men are with men with LD. Does not include interview potentially sexual. questions, reliability or validity formation.
McCarthy and Thompson, 1996 - - Discussion/Commentary - Sexual abuse training for staff is short and there is little follow up. - Paper is based on ideas developed through experience working in the area of sexuality and sexual abuse of AW LD settings. No evidence. Mainly focuses on sexual abuse. Owen, Griffiths, Feldman, and Richards, 2000 N=32 14 members of and 18 consumers from community residential services for AWLD. Voluntary participation Questionnaire assessment likert scale format. Questionnaire was developed with participant population through thematic analysis of semi structured interviews. Questionnaire assessed consumers and staff judgements of appropriateness of social behaviours towards him/herself by different individuals. Staff considered face-to-face hugging acceptable when there had been a long association with the consumer. Half of the staff interviewed did not mind being patted on the leg by a consumer. Provides details of questionnaire development and content. Participants were representative of both genders of staff. Participants had been interviewed previously for the development of the questionnaire potentially leading to demand characteristics. Does not clearly describe sampling strategy and participant recruitment. Thompson, Clare and Brown, 1997 N=5 Female support workers working with men with LD. Unspecified Pilot study using structured interviews to look at boundaries between male client and female staff member. Unspecified Staff appraise appropriateness of forms of touching including kissing, holding hands, hugging and sitting on laps by making a judgement about which men are potentially sexual. - Female sample not representative. Does not include sampling strategy. Does not include interview questions, reliability or validity formation.
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