. Vahid Farina; . Safora Salemi.; . Faezeh Tatari; . Nasrin Abdoli; . Touraj Ahmadi Jouybari; . Mostafa Alikhani; . Behrad Basanj; . Ali Zakiei
Volume 8, Issue 3 , March 2018, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Child abuse and violence toward children has become a complex phenomenon innowadays societies leaving hurt children with numerous complications such as lowered self‑efficacy.Hence, ...
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BACKGROUND: Child abuse and violence toward children has become a complex phenomenon innowadays societies leaving hurt children with numerous complications such as lowered self‑efficacy.Hence, this study was conducted to assess the effect of trauma‑focused cognitive behavioraltherapy (TF‑CBT) in physically abused children self‑efficacy.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a randomized clinical trial. From this statisticalpopulation of all abused children aged 9–12 in Kermanshah in 2016–2017, 40 were divided intointervention and control groups randomly. Tools used in this study were Maurice self‑efficacyquestionnaire and child abuse questionnaire. Data analysis was done using Chi‑square test, pairedt‑test, and independent t‑test.RESULTS: It was revealed that the mean difference between two groups was not meaningful beforeintervention. After TF‑CBT in intervention group, self‑efficacy mean scores of social (17.95 vs. 24.20)and emotional (15.05 vs. 19.05) domains showed meaningful differences, whereas academicself‑efficacy mean score did not change significantly (14.10 vs. 14.65) (P < 0.086). In controlgroup, social (16.20 vs. 15.55), emotional (13.90 vs. 14.35), and academic (13.40 vs. 13.90) meanself‑efficacy scores were not of significant difference (P > 0.001).CONCLUSIONS: TF‑CBT can be used as an appropriate therapy intervention to improve social andemotional self‑efficacy in abused children.
