@article{ref1,
title="Educating physicians internationally in the diagnosis of child sexual abuse: evaluation of a brief educational intervention in Malawi",
journal="Journal of child sexual abuse",
year="2014",
author="Miller, Aaron J. and Barlup Toombs, Kristin",
volume="23",
number="3",
pages="247-255",
abstract="We designed this pilot study to assess physician knowledge and comfort evaluating child sexual abuse in Malawi and to evaluate the feasibility of a brief educational intervention to improve physician knowledge. A survey was administered to 21 physicians before receiving training on child sexual abuse. The survey was administered again, 3 days later, to assess improvement. Prior to the training, 48% correctly identified the hymen in a photograph, and 24% correctly interpreted the photograph as normal. Of the 11 physicians available for the posttest 3 days later, significant improvement was found in their ability to correctly identify the hymen (6 of 11 pretraining and all 11 posttraining, p = 0.011) and to interpret the photograph correctly (1 of 11 correct pretraining, 9 of 11 posttraining, p = 0.001). This study demonstrates the feasibility of designing trainings on child sexual abuse in a low-income country.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8712",
doi="10.1080/10538712.2014.888120",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2014.888120"
}