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Front. Public Health
Sec. Children and Health
This article is part of the Research TopicChild Sexual Exploitation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Risk Factors and Protective StrategiesView all articles
Pinta tu raya ASI [Set your limit LIKE THIS]: An educational intervention using immersive reality to prevent Child Sexual Abuse in Mexico
Provisionally accepted
Leonor Rivera-Rivera1
Marina Séris-Martínez1*
Gabriel González-Serna2
Noé Alejandro Castro-Sánchez2Dolores González-Hernández1
Alberto Jiménez-Tapia3Sandra Treviño-Siller1- 1Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- 2Centro Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- 3Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico City, Mexico
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Background: Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a global social and health problem requiring a comprehensive, multi-level prevention approach. School-based education is recognized as one of the most effective prevention strategies. Objective: This project aims to test the effectiveness of the preventive intervention, "Pinta tu raya ASI" (Set your Limit LIKE THIS), to prevent CSA. Methods: This is a two-arm matched cluster-randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention to prevent CSA in Mexican elementary school children using Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR). The study will be administered in clusters of public and private schools in urban and rural areas across two Mexican states. The intervention group will receive a learning session with an IVR animation, while the control group will receive the intervention only after the final knowledge acquisition measurement. Expected results: The project is expected to enhance elementary students' knowledge of self-esteem, body safety, and rights to help them prevent child violence in Mexico. Ethics: The study was approved by the National Institute of Public Health's Commissions of Research, Ethics, and Biosafety. Ethical safeguards include obtaining informed consent from guardians and assent from minors, providing trained staff, continuous monitoring during the IVR session, and having a specialized psychology team for case management and referral.
Keywords: child sexual abuse, prevention, Educational intervention, elementary school, virtual reality
Received: 14 Aug 2025; Accepted: 28 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Rivera-Rivera, Séris-Martínez, González-Serna, Castro-Sánchez, González-Hernández, Jiménez-Tapia and Treviño-Siller. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Marina Séris-Martínez
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