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UN Secretary-General's Report on Children and Violence & ISPCANInternational Questionnaires
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<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, ISPCAN, has been participating on the Advisory Committee and collaborating with the UN Secretary-General's Study of Children and Violence that is being released today at the United Nations. The short version of the report is available on the web at <<A href="http://www.violencestudy.org/r25";>http://www.violencestudy.org/r25</A>>. The study will be useful for all of us as it addresses the epidemiology, risk factors, and needed training efforts. There will be a longer book-length version of the study forthcoming that I have not yet seen.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As part of its contribution to the study, ISPCAN has had made an effort, for more than 2 years, to develop a set of core instruments that can be used to assess child maltreatment in a variety of countries. More than 120 experts from over 40 countries have collaborated on the development and pilot testing of three new instruments for measuring violence against children. These tools have been named the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools (ICAST) and there are discreet versions for Parents (The ICAST-P), Children (the ICAST-C), and for youth retrospective reports (The ICAST-R). The children's version has been further subdivided into the ICAST-CI for institutions and Schools while the ICAST-CH asks about the home. These instruments and associated manuals are available on the ISPCAN website: <<A href="http://www.ispcan.org/questionnaires.htm";>http://www.ispcan.org/questionnaires.htm</A>>. Some revisions on the manuals and data entry templates developed using the EpiInfo data entry and analysis software available from cdc.gov will be made available in the next month. Pilot studies of these instruments have been completed in 3 countries for the child version and in 12 countries for the other versions. Publications of this work will be forthcoming. ISPCAN hopes that these instruments will help future international studies of child maltreatment develop common data. Translations into Arabic, Hindi, Marati, Tagalong, Spanish, and French (among others) should be available soon. the translations made for the pilot studies have to be updated as the instruments have been reformatted and shortened as a result of the pilot studies.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The development of these instruments has been accompanied by considerable discussion about research ethics that has included a forum at the recent ISPCAN meeting in York and explicit requirements for ethical review of projects are part of the process of getting the instruments for scientists proposing to use the ISPCAN instruments. The number of scholars who have collaborated on this project is impressive and they are acknowledged in the manuals accompanying the instruments. ISPCAN has received support from UNICEF and the Oak foundation for this work. Special thanks go to Kimberly Svevo at ISPCAN, George Palamattam at ISPCAN, Michael Dunne, PhD at Queensland University of Technology, and Adam Zolotor, MD, MPH at the University of North Carolina for making these manuals and instruments available now to coincide with the release of the Secretary-General's report. the The list of scholars and scientists who collaborated is too long for this message but it should be noted that Micahel Dunne and Bonnie McFarland of Brisbane helped lead the working group on the youth retrospective development. Sibnath Deb of India, Tufail Muhammad of Pakistan, and Victoria Lidchi of Brazil led the working group that worked on on the child instrument. Bernard Gerbaka of Lebanon, Dipty Jain of India and Bernadette Madrid of the Philippines helped provide leadership to the parent instrument.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Des</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH</DIV><DIV>Professor and Chair of Social Medicine</DIV><DIV>Professor of Pediatrics</DIV><DIV>The University of North Carolina</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:drunyan@med.unc.edu";>drunyan@med.unc.edu</A></DIV><DIV>919.843.8262</DIV><DIV>919.966.7499 (fax)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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