Title

Awareness on good and bad touch among school children in north Gujarat, India

Authors

Beeman Mahalakshmi¹, Ramalakshmi Govindan², Patel Tasvirben Kiritkumar¹, Siva Subramanian Nagooran^1,*, MahidaSadiya Zakirhusen¹ & Kirti Harshal²

Affiliation

¹Nootan College of Nursing, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat -384315, India; ²College of Nursing, S.G.R.R University, Dehradun, Uttarkhand - 248001, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Mahalakshmi Beeman - E-mail: mb.fn@spu.ac.in

Patel Tasvirben Kiritkumar- E-mail: pateltasvir.123@gmail.com

Sivasubramanian Nagooran - E-mail: sn.fn@spu.ac.in

Ramalakshmi Govindan - E-mail: dean.s.n@sgrru.ac.in

Mahida Sadiya Zakirhusen - E-mail: sidmahida.828@gmail.com

Kirti Harshal - E-mail: kirti harshal.207 @gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received August 1, 2023; Revised August 31, 2023; Accepted August 31, 2023, Published August 31, 2023

It is not common to discuss child sexual assault in open conversation. Hence, it is vital to explain the distinction between good and harmful contact in order to stop harmful touch and preserve the safety of children. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the efficacy of teaching initiatives addressing appropriate and inappropriate touching with a view to reducing child sexual abuse. Thus, an experimental research design was employed. Further, a single group pre-test and post-test design was chosen. The data collected from 60 school children at Visnagar, Gujarat, India. Data shows that the mean post-test knowledge score, which averaged at 16.03, was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score (5.6). Thus, educational programs on child sexual abuse can significantly improve awareness among school children.

Keywords

Awareness, good touch, bad touch, school children.

Citation

Mahalakshmi et al. Bioinformation 19(8): 849-852 (2023)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.