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The problem
Intervention: Comparative evaluation of perceptual accuracy in rating severity of psychological and physical violence against children as described in parental narratives
Who it was tested with: Parents who had witnessed violence against their children; social workers; laypeople as control group in Sweden and Poland.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"parents who had witnessed violence against their children, committed by a current or former partner, provided first-person narratives describing these events and rated the severity of the violence. In Phase 2, social workers and a control group (laypeople) read these narratives and rated the severity of the violence." This measures perceptual accuracy by comparing how different groups rate the same violence incidents, allowing assessment of whether professional experience improves judgment.
The study used written narratives rather than real incidents, limiting ecological validity. The mechanism explaining why professional bias increases is not explored. The sample and cultural context are limited to Sweden and Poland.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 2 countries
