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Mobile Phones and the Prevention of Child Maltreatment: Innovation & Implications
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Katelyn Guastaferro, MPH
,
Center for Healthy Development; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Shannon Self-Brown, PhD
,
National SafeCare Training and Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
John Lutzker, Ph.D.
,
Center for Healthy Development; Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Using mobile phones as a component in public health interventions is a burgeoning technique, and may be particularly useful in child maltreatment prevention as a way to engage and retain parents, as well as to deliver components of intervention programming. Recent data suggests that the digital divide is shrinking, and that 95% of young adults have access to cell phone technology, making a strong case for incorporating this tool into programming. This presentation will review the use of mobile phones among those at-risk for child maltreatment. Research that has successfully incorporated mobile phone technology in the implementation of SafeCare®, an evidence-based parent-training intervention targeting prevention of child maltreatment, will be highlighted. Specifically, two recently published studies that have utilized mobile phones as an augmentation to SafeCare will be discussed. Other successful interventions that have utilized mobile phone technology, or technology that may be translated to mobile phones, will be reviewed as well. Finally, the authors will discuss the future directions, potential limitations, and recommendations for research in the prevention of child maltreatment using mobile phone technology.
Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the applicability and utility of mobile phone technology in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Compare effective intervention strategies that have incorporated mobile phones in the prevention of child maltreatment.
List potential implications for mobile phone technology in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Keyword(s): Child Abuse, Maternal and Child Health
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a doctoral student, graduate research fellow, as well as the primary assessor on Dad2K, a father-specific child maltreatment prevention program. Dad2K is a technologically enhanced module of SafecareŽ, which utilizes technology to facilitate the learning of positive parenting skills. My interests are the utilization of technology to improve the implementation of public health programs. I am specifically interested in how technology can help move successful interventions from the lab to real world settings.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
