WP2: Development of Instruments and Training on Methodology


 
 

Objectives

Description of work Deliverables

Achievements



Objectives

  • Translate the instruments to be used for data collection into the official language of each partner country and culturally validate them
  • Train the research groups in order to adequately and uniformly collect (WP2) or extract data (WP4) and  code them

 

Description of work

Development of Instruments

1.    
The questionnaires developed for and are being used in the UN Study on Violence against Children, namely the ICAST-P addressing parents and the ICAST-CH addressing children, will be used in all of the epidemiological studies. Each partner will be responsible for obtaining the rights to use the questionnaires from ISPCAN, as well as for the translation and cultural validation of the instruments.
2.    
Each of the instruments will be modified twice in order to endorse modifications revealed by the analysis of data from the focus groups and from the Pilot studies. The final version of the questionnaires will be decided, along with each of the partners, during the 3rd Managerial Meeting.




Training on Methodology
3.     “Train-the-Trainers” Workshop: The Coordinator, along with the Scientific Supervisor, will undertake the training of partner countries’ representatives: 
a.     On the administration of the ICAST questionnaires, the ethical issues that have to be addressed and the overall methodology of the epidemiological studies, including coding and handling of the data. The Workshop is going to be conducted after the Focus Groups’ implementation, in order to take into account all possible issues and barriers that would have been recognized during them. If a necessity for major modifications in the training is revealed after the Pilot studies implementation, a second long workshop is going to be organized; if not, a brief update of the training is going to be held. (WP3)  
b.    On the use of the Protocol for Extracting CAN information and the process of recording information on reported/detected cases of CAN from the child welfare services’ archives and/or databases (WP4)
4.     Researchers’ Training Workshop: As regards to the tasks of WP3, the research team of each partner country will be trained twice. The first training will take place prior to the implementation of the Pilot studies, while the second one prior to the implementation of the main surveys. The length of the second training will be the same as the second “train-the-trainers” workshop.
Similarly, as regards to the tasks of the WP4, the training will held prior to the implementation of the extraction of information on reported/detected cases of CAN. All of these trainings should be undertaken by the trained trainers of each partner country.


Training Manuals:
Two Training Manuals, one for the ICAST-CH and one for the ICAST-P, will be developed and translated in the language of each partner in order to be distributed to the researchers. Each Manual will be based on the basic principles of the ICAST Manuals, but they will also cover in every details the all of the issues related to the methodology, the sampling, the administration of the questionnaires, ethical issues and coding of the data.

 


No.

Deliverable

2.1

Revised ICAST-P/ICAST-CH versions as modified for the purposes of the Balkan Epidemiological Study on Child Abuse & Neglect (BECAN)

 

Albania:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

Bosnia & Herzegovina:

ICAST-CH (Latin) (Cyrillic)

ICAST-P (Latin) (Cyrillic)

Bulgaria:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

Croatia:

ICAST-CH (Male) (Female)

ICAST-P

Greece:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

Romania:

ICAST-CH (Romanian) (Hungarian)

ICAST-P (Romanian) (Hungarian)

Serbia:

ICAST-CH (Serbian) (Hungarian)

ICAST-P (Serbian) (Hungarian)

Turkey:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

 

 

 

English version:

ICAST-CH 

ICAST-P

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.2

ICAST-P/ICAST-CH Training Manual translated into the official languages of 9 Balkan countries
 

Albania:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines

(Albanian) 

Bosnia & Herzegovina:

Training Manual - Researchers' Guidelines 

(Bosnian) 

Bulgaria:

Training Manual - Researchers' Guidelines

(Bulgarian)

Croatia:

Training Manual - Researchers' Guidelines

(Croatian)

Greece:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines 

(Greek)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines 

(Macedonian)

Romania:

Training Manual - Researchers' Guidelines 

(Romanian)

Serbia:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines

(Serbian)

Turkey:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines

(Turkish)

 

 

 

English version:

Training Manual & Researchers' Guidelines

(English)

 

 

 

 



Achievements

No.

Achievement Description

2.1

The ICAST-P questionnaire translated and validated in 9 countries

2.2

The ICAST-CH questionnaire translated and validated in 9 countries

2.3

The ICAST-P Training Manual translated in at least 10 languages

2.4

The ICAST-CH Training Manual translated in at least 10 languages

2.5

Two "Training-the-Trainers" Workshops  
2.6 Sixteen Researchers' Training Workshops