Assessment of knowledge and attitude regarding prevention of child abuse among the mothers residing at the selected rural community, West Bengal

Abstract

A descriptive study was conducted to assess knowledge and attitude regarding prevention of child abuse among the mothers residing at the selected rural community, West Bengal. The data was collected from 120 mothers, selected by simple random sampling technique by administering Semi-structured socio-demographic proforma, structured knowledge questionnaire and structured attitude measuring scale on prevention of child abuse. Study findings revealed that 20.83%, 71.67%, 7.5% rural mothers had very good, good, fair knowledge score respectively; 20%, 65%, 15% rural mothers had satisfactory, fair, poor attitude level respectively. There are significant associations present between level of knowledge with the mothers’ age (p0.0319), education (χ227.35), spouses’ education/ occupation (p0.0052/p0.0079), monthly per capita income (p0.0272) and source of knowledge (χ211.1); and between levels of attitude with source of knowledge ((χ26.33). This study recommends to assess the impact of knowledge on practice and experimental study on prevention of child abuse on both illiterate/ literate parents.