Pineda PEJ, Gutiérrez BE

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Attention to people with disabilities is one of the priorities of Cuba's social policy, which guarantees and promotes actions, including the development of special education, aimed at satisfying the educational needs and raising the quality of life since childhood. Special education workers must have adequate information on different issues, such as the control and prevention of child mistreatment.
Objective: To increase knowledge about child maltreatment in the special education workers through an educative intervention.
Methods: We implemented an educative intervention with a design of the type before and after, consisting of workshops and validated by experts, to the workers of Zunzún Special Kindergarten, Playa Municipality, about the knowledge of some aspects related to child mistreatment.
Results: Most of the educators, 27 (84.4%), acknowledged having received some information about child mistreatment, the sources were: the communication offered by the health staff of the center was referred by 21 (65.2%), television and radios shows by 19 (59.4%), articles on the subject in books and journals by 11 (34.4%), personal experiences by 7 (21.9%), and postgraduate courses by 5 (15.6%), more than 50% of workers reported more than one source of information. Before the educative intervention was applied, the form of private mistreatment most known by the special education workers was the sexual abuse syndrome (100%), followed by the physical abuse or physical abuse syndrome by 23 (71.9). After the educational intervention the knowledge about all forms and their ability to prevent child abuse increases (96.9%).
Conclusion: The implementation of the educative intervention served to raise special education workers' knowledge about child mistreatment.