isclosure data without names, 3 months after the play.Students exposed to Project TRUST demonstrated significantly greater knowledge of maltreatment prevention information, as well as difficult-to acquire concepts, than control group students. A 3 month delay reassessment of the experimental and subgroup showed loss in acquired prevention information. No differences in anxiety scores existed between the groups. First time student abuse disclosures were greater in the experimental than control group. Overall, project TRUST was a strategy to increase prevention knowledge and generate abuse disclosures without creating student anxiety.This next study was entitled, A longitudinal analysis of risk factors or child maltreatment: findings of a 17-year prospective study of officially recorded and self-reported child abuse and neglect. The primary aim of this longitudinal study was to identify the demographic, family, parent and child factors that increased the risk for child physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.Surveys were conducted on 644 families in upstate New York on four separate occasions between 1975 and 1992. New York State records were used to collect data on child abuse and neglect in the families studied. A retrospective self-report was also administered when the children were 18 years or older. The participants were selected from a larger sample of families with children between the ages of 1 and 10 in 1975 who were randomly sampled on the basis of residence in one of two upstate New York counties. (Brown, Cohen, Johnson and Salzinger, 1998, page 1067) The participants act as the representatives of the demographic compilation of the population in the northeastern region of the United States. At the time of the second study in 1983 there was only 79 percent participation.The study reported that there were 18 cases of sexual abuse reported. It also found that sexual abuse was associated with two demographic risk fa...
