Awareness of Mothers Regarding Child Abuse and Its Prevention in India
Journal Title: International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development - Year 2021, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
When children’s rights are protected, children stand a much better chance of growing up in a society that allows them to thrive. Children have their own rights to live in the healthy society like to be physically and mentally healthy, to have medical facilities, education without and gender discrimination. Even beyond this legislation children are often maltreated in many forms at homes. Objectives of the study were to assess awareness of mothers regarding child abuse in India and to develop an information booklet. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Data was collected from a total of 200 mothers at district hospital, Udhampur, JandK. Coveinient sampling technique was used to collect data. The tool used for data collection was structured knowledge questionnaire to assess knowledge regarding child abuse and its prevention. The data collected was analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Result revealed that highest 53 of the mothers are in the age group of 26 30 years having primary education 34 . Majority 79.5 of the mothers are housewife and 49.5 had 2 children in the family. Most of the mothers 93 are from Hindu religion. Researcher found that majority of the mothers 58.5 had moderately adequate level of knowledge and only 6 of mothers had adequate knowledge regarding child abuse. The overall mean of the knowledge of mothers on child abuse is 17.72 ± 2.847. The researcher concluded that majority of the mothers had moderately adequate knowledge regarding child abuse and its prevention. Pooja Rani | Sushma Kumari "Awareness of Mothers Regarding Child Abuse and Its Prevention in India" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46245.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/46245/awareness-of-mothers-regarding-child-abuse-and-its-prevention-in-india/pooja-rani
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Pooja Rani | Sushma Kumari
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