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Project
Acronym: BECAN 
Name: Balkan Epidemiological Study on Child Abuse and Neglect 
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Project status: From: 2009-10-01 To: 2013-01-31 (Completed)
Contract number: 223478  
Action line: HEALTH-2007 
Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: STREP 
Project cost: 2.881.859,00 EUR
Project funding: 2.323.346,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: INSTITOUTON YGEIAS TOU PAIDIOU (Institute of Child Health) 
Organisation adress: THIVON KAI LIVADIAS, ATHINA 
Organisation country: Grčka 
Contact person name: George NIKOLAIDIS (Dr) 
Contact person email:  
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Pravni fakultet 
Organisation address: Trg maršala Tita 14/I, 10000 Zagreb 
Contact person name: Marina Ajduković
Contact person tel:
385 1 4821 203  Contact person fax:  
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
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Short description of project
BECAN is an epidemiological study aiming at mapping child abuse and neglect (CAN) in the general population of 11 to 16-year-old children that attend and those that have dropped-out school and at identifying the number of reported/detected cases of CAN being recorded in at least 8 Balkan countries. Mapping of CAN will be achieved by applying two of the I-CAST questionnaires (ICAST-CH for children and ICAST_P for parents, created by ISPCAN with the support of UNICEF) to matched pairs of children and parents. I-CAST questionnaires will first be translated into the official languages of the participating countries and culturally validated. There is no information on the prevalence of CAN in the general population of children in Balkan countries, and this study is certainly the larger in sample size ever conducted in the Balkan area (over 30.000 children and parents), and probably one of the biggest globally. CAN is associated with unhealthy behaviour in children and adolescents. Particularly, due to the well established circle of violence phenomenon, domestic violence tends to reproduce itself. Preventive cutting off of that circle contributes substantially and more effectively in the disappearance of such unhealthy behaviour in both children and adults. It is also believed that this study will provide the basis for the harmonization of CAN screening procedures in the Balkan area, and offer valuable tools to relevant policy-making activities in all participating Balkan countries.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
 


   

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