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Little red riding hood in the social forest. Online grooming as a public health issue: a narrative review.
- Source :
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Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita [Ann Ig] 2020 May-Jun; Vol. 32 (3), pp. 305-318. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Introduction: Online grooming is a manipulative process through which an adult attempts to arrange a sexual interaction with a minor using internet. Children are constantly exposed to the online world, posing online grooming as a public health issue.<br />Objectives: The aim of this narrative review is to describe the state of online grooming preventive strategies in recent literature through an overview of online grooming phenomenon.<br />Methods: Our literature review included research articles and reviews published between January 2014 and March 2019, as well as reference lists of included studies.<br />Results: The analysis provides a picture of online grooming phenomenon, identify recurrent features of perpetrators and victims. Several preventive strategies have been implemented, but they lack any kind of efficacy evaluation and miss a theory driven approach. Fragmentation of preventive initiatives is a critical issue, in contrast with the need of an institutional public health strategy.<br />Conclusions: While the attention around online grooming is growing, there is still the need of further sensitizing the involved stakeholders and developing evidence based preventive strategies under an institutional guidance.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1120-9135
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32266368
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7416/ai.2020.2353