Perceptions held by general practitioners in England regarding their training needs in child abuse and neglect
✍ Scribed by M. J. Bannon; Y. H. Carter; F. Barwell; Carolyn Hicks
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-9136
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✦ Synopsis
A ll professionals who have contact with children should have an adequate awareness of the clinical indicators of child abuse and neglect as well as local referral procedures (Department of Health, 1991). Training is therefore an integral component of the child protection process. While considerable eorts in this respect are already undertaken by Area Child Protection Committees (ACPCs), those professionals who work closely with children and their families may have speci®c unrecognized training needs which might not be re¯ected in standard training programmes (Braun and Armstrong, 1992).
The aim of this study was to determine the perceived training needs in child protection of a representative sample of general practitioners (GPs) in England by means of a con®dential, postal, questionnaire survey. GPs undertake an important and challenging role in the provision of health care for children and their families, yet relatively little is known of their perceived training needs in this area.
Research
A three-part questionnaire was constructed. The ®rst part consisted of 30 items derived from key issues which emerged from a series of previously held focus group discussions