Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge of High School Children Regarding Prevention of Sexual Abuse

Child sexual abuse is a significant health problem with long term consequences for victims. Therefore prevention and education programmes are critical. The study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge of high school children regarding prevention of sexual abuse.

The objectives of the study were to assess the pre test and post test level of knowledge of high school children regarding prevention of sexual abuse, to find out the effectiveness of structured teaching programme and association of pre test knowledge with selected demographic variables.

The researcher used one group pre test post test design. The study was conducted among 60 high school children who were selected by using stratified random sampling.

The results of the study showed that the teaching programme was effective. The knowledge of high school children regarding prevention of sexual abuse was improved to 20.56% after the structured teaching programme. The calculated ‘t’ value was 25.06 which was greater than the table value 2.58 at 0.01 level of significance. It was revealed that there was statistically significant difference between the pre test and post test level of knowledge of high school children. There was a significant association between pre test knowledge score and demographic variables such as age, class of study and educational status of the mother.

The study concluded that the teaching programme is very crucial in addressing the sensitive topic such as child sexual abuse.