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O presente estudo teve como objetivo compreender a influência de dinâmicas do abuso sexual e idade da criança nos processos mnésicos, contribuindo para a adaptação e aplicação do protocolo NICHD ao contexto português. Os objetivos específicos do mesmo consistiram em compreender de que forma a frequência do abuso, a idade da criança e a influência do intervalo de tempo, entre o primeiro evento abusivo e a entrevista forense, condicionam a capacidade da criança fornecer informação.
Para tal, recorreu-se a uma amostra de 21 crianças alegadamente abusadas sexualmente e entrevistadas com o Protocolo de Entrevista Forense do NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). Estas entrevistas foram sujeitas a uma análise de conteúdo, através da contabilização do número de palavras total do discurso da criança, relativa a parte substantiva da entrevista, permitindo assim quantificar o mesmo. Posteriormente foi elaborada uma análise quantitativa, ao nível das variáveis em estudo.
Os resultados deste estudo demonstraram que não existem diferenças significativas ao nível da frequência do abuso, da idade da criança e da influência do intervalo de tempo, entre o primeiro evento abusivo e a entrevista forense, relativamente à capacidade da criança fornecer informação.
Alguns dos resultados permitem-nos tirar conclusões que vão de encontro ao que a literatura científica aponta, nomeadamente, o facto de crianças mais novas também serem capazes de fornecer informação, a qualidade da entrevista potenciar a capacidade da criança para descrever eventos, a ausência de diferenças na capacidade de fornecer informação entre crianças com diferentes idades e perante experiências repetidas de abuso, e o facto de as crianças serem capazes fornecer informação por longos períodos de tempo.
Estas conclusões foram explicadas à luz da literatura e de estudos científicos já realizados, bem como em função do que consideramos ser as limitações do estudo.
The present study aimed to understand the influence of the sexual abuse and age of the child dynamics in mnemonic processes, contributing to the adaptation and application of the NICHD protocol to the Portuguese context. The specific objectives consisted in understanding how the abuse frequency, child’s age and the time interval influence, between the first abusive event and the forensic interview, determine the child’s ability to provide information. To this end, we resorted to a 21 children sample allegedly sexually abused and interviewed with the Forensic Interview Protocol NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). These interviews were subjected to a content analysis, by counting the total number of words of the child’s speech, on the substantive part of the interview, thus quantify the same. Posteriorly, was elaborated a quantitative analysis of the variables under study. The results of this study demonstrated that there are no significant differences in the frequency of the abuse, child’s age and the time interval influence, between the first abusive event and the forensic interview relative to the child’s ability to provide information. Some of the results allow us to draw conclusions that are in accordance to what the scientific literature indicates, in particular, the fact that younger children are also able to provide information, the quality of the interview potentiate the child’s ability to describe events, the absence of differences in the ability to provide information among children of different ages and before repeated abuse experiments, and the fact that children are able to provide information for long periods of time. These conclusions were explained in the light of literature and conducted scientific studies, as well as in terms of what we consider to be the study limitations.
The present study aimed to understand the influence of the sexual abuse and age of the child dynamics in mnemonic processes, contributing to the adaptation and application of the NICHD protocol to the Portuguese context. The specific objectives consisted in understanding how the abuse frequency, child’s age and the time interval influence, between the first abusive event and the forensic interview, determine the child’s ability to provide information. To this end, we resorted to a 21 children sample allegedly sexually abused and interviewed with the Forensic Interview Protocol NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). These interviews were subjected to a content analysis, by counting the total number of words of the child’s speech, on the substantive part of the interview, thus quantify the same. Posteriorly, was elaborated a quantitative analysis of the variables under study. The results of this study demonstrated that there are no significant differences in the frequency of the abuse, child’s age and the time interval influence, between the first abusive event and the forensic interview relative to the child’s ability to provide information. Some of the results allow us to draw conclusions that are in accordance to what the scientific literature indicates, in particular, the fact that younger children are also able to provide information, the quality of the interview potentiate the child’s ability to describe events, the absence of differences in the ability to provide information among children of different ages and before repeated abuse experiments, and the fact that children are able to provide information for long periods of time. These conclusions were explained in the light of literature and conducted scientific studies, as well as in terms of what we consider to be the study limitations.
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Abuso sexual de crianças Entrevista forense Processos mnésicos Protocolo do NICHD Forensic interview The NICHD protocol Mnesic processes Child sexual abuse