Awareness through Teaching Program Regarding Child Abuse

This chapter assess the effectiveness of a structured teaching program regarding child abuse. Child abuse and neglect can cause a variety of psychological problems. Maltreatment can cause victims to feel isolation, fear, and distrust, which can translate into lifelong psychological consequences that can manifest as educational difficulties, low self-esteem, depression, and trouble forming and maintaining relationships.Quasi experimental one group pre-test-post-test design was used and setting was selected rural areas of Sarojini Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Samples of 73 mothers were selected by purposive sampling technique. Tools were used as self-structured knowledge questionnaires.

In the pre-test, there were 63 mothers had an average level of knowledge i.e 86.3%, the remaining 10 mothers had a poor level of knowledge i.e 13.69% and none of them had a good level of knowledge whereas in the post-test 58 mothers had a good level of knowledge i.e 79.45%, 15 mothers had an average level of knowledge i.e 20.54% and none of them had poor level of knowledge and the final result revealed that the mean score of the pre-test knowledge was 10.42 with SD of 1.95 whereas the mean score of the post-test knowledge score was 17.61 and SD was 1.7. Based on the findings researcher compared the calculated t value i.e. 21.05 and the tabulated value i.e.1.99 on 72 degrees of freedom at 0.05 level of significance. The appropriate degrees of freedom, the analysed data reveals that there was a significant association of the pre-test knowledge with the demographic variables i.e religion and number of male children whereas there was no significant association of the pre-test knowledge scores with age, types of family, no. of children, no. of female children, income, education, occupation and previous knowledge. Since the calculated value was higher than the tabulated value the researcher rejected the null hypothesis and accepted the alternative hypothesis. Which revealed that there was a significant increase in the level of knowledge. There is a need of providing proper information and education regarding child abuse. So, healthcare providers should provide health education to improve their knowledge regarding child abuse among mothers of school-age children.