Research
Scientific work of Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center’s experts: “Children behind closed doors due to COVID-19 Isolation: abuse, neglect and domestic violence”
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Results of the national research project “Online social experiences and mental health of youth”
First national study about pre-school children in front of screens (RESULTS)
The Child and Youth Protection Centre of the City of Zagreb and the Brave Phone conducted the first national study about pre-school children in front of screens. The study was conducted in kindergartens all over Croatia during 2016 and 2917. Results are based on a cohort of 655 parents of pre-school children, selected by the convenient sample method from both rural and urban areas in different parts of Croatia. Here are the preliminary results of the study.
Research on experience and behaviours of children on the Internet and on Facebook
The Brave Phone and The Child Protection Center of Zagreb conducted research at the national level on the experience and behaviours of children on the Internet and on Facebook social network in general and on the relation of that experience to children's personal and psychological characteristics, habits of safe use of the Internet and other characteristics.
Bullying
Child protection center of Zagreb conducted research on bullying in schools. The research included 25 elementary schools in 13 cities of Croatia, and examinees were pupils from the fourth to the eighth grade of elementary school, in 2003.
Research on children and youth experience using new technologies
The research was intended to investigate into the way children use the Internet and into the purpose of the use, identify the exposure of children to inappropriate sexual content and intimate questions of sexual nature as well as the experience of e-abuse via the Internet and mobile phones.