A Pilot Study of eLearning Training for a School-Based Child Victimization Prevention and Safety Education Program:...

Child victimization is a global public health challenge, jeopardizing the healthy development of millions of children every day. The radKIDS ^® Personal Empowerment and Safety Education Program is a school-based child victimization prevention program developed in the United States to respond to comprehensive child behavioral safety skill training needs. To support implementation fidelity for broad-scale dissemination, we adapted the current radKIDS ^® in-person training model into a blended learning, web-based multimedia technology training program called radKIDS2.0. We conducted a preliminary evaluation of radKIDS2.0 to assess pre-post changes in self-efficacy in teaching radKIDS2.0 and radKIDS2.0 instructor knowledge, as well as program usability, acceptability, satisfaction and fidelity. We found a large effect size evident for the increase in instructor scores for self-efficacy towards radKIDS2.0 instruction and radKIDS2.0 knowledge from pre to post-program timepoints (η² = 0.20; η² = 0.17, respectively). The overall sample means for usability, acceptability, and satisfaction using a 5-point scale, were 3.97 (SD = 0.56), 4.01 (SD = 0.79), and 4.2 (SD = 0.83), respectively. Average fidelity scores were 3.7 out of 5. This study found that eLearning instructor training via radKIDS2.0 appeared to be a viable, feasible, and usable alternative to the current in-person radKIDS ^® training.