WASHINGTON — Most U.S. Roman Catholics are not aware of the child protection policies enacted in their dioceses in response to the clergy sex abuse crisis, a new survey has found.

About 45 percent of respondents knew that dioceses were expected to report abuse claims to civil authorities and knew that dioceses were supposed to bar credibly accused priests from any church work, according to the poll conducted for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

But only one-third of respondents knew that their dioceses were required to provide counseling and other support to victims, and only 15 percent knew that dioceses were reporting annually to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on their adherence to the policies.

American bishops adopted the reforms five years ago in Dallas under enormous public pressure. The abuse crisis erupted in 2002 over the case of one predatory priest in the Archdiocese of Boston and spread to every U.S. diocese and beyond.

In the CARA poll, about 60 percent of respondents said they were now "somewhat" or "very" satisfied with the leadership of the U.S. church in general.

The survey of 1,048 self-identified adult Catholics was conducted Feb. 21 to March 5 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.