American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

A PRE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AMONG TEACHERS OF SELECTED SCHOOL OF JODHPUR

Shalini Violet and Mohammed Rizwan

shaluviolet66@gmail.com

Knowledge, School teachers, Child abuse, structured teaching programme

Child abuse is physical, sexual, and psychological or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver and it can occur in child home, or in the organizations, school or communities the child interacts with. In this study, researcher wan to prove that teacher’s knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse can be improved by structured teaching programme. Aim of the study: Assess knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse among school teachers. Material and method: A pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test study was used in order to evaluate effectiveness of structured teaching programme (the Independent variable) on knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse (the dependent variable) among teachers of selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique school of Jodhpur. Each participant was informed about the study and that they could withdraw at any time and a written consent was also obtained. Result: The findings of the study reveals that in pre-test majority (61.29%) of teachers had average knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse followed by (25.08%) had good knowledge and (12.9%) teachers had poor knowledge. However the majority of the demographic variables such as age (1.93), Gender (1.412), Qualification of teachers (11.27), teaching experience (3.86), marital status (1.78), No of Offspring (1.48), have been abused in childhood (0.70) and source of information (3.50) were not found significant. Conclusion: It can be concluded that teachers had average knowledge regarding prevention of child abuse as per current research recommendations. They require education and to enhance their knowledge regarding child abuse, structured teaching programme can be used