International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

Child abuse is a very complex and dangerous set of problems that include child neglect and the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children. Although child abuse may not always lead to serious physical injury, it often results in serious emotional harm and may have long-lasting effects. As an adult you may encounter a child who has been hurt by abuse. Regardless of your role in that child's life-parent, teacher, coach, neighbor, family member-you can help.

Experimental research approach, pre experimental research design selected for the study. The research approach used for this study is experimental approach. A pre-experimental design adopt with one group pre test-post test design. Sample consists of a subset of a population selected in a research study. The sample consist of secondary school students of government School, siyawa at Abu road. The sample size for the final study consisted of 30 secondary school students in selected school at Abu road. Simple random sampling techniques use to select the samples. Using lottery method.

The mean post test knowledge score is 12.5 is greater than the means Pretest Knowledge score 5.97. The data further represent that't ’value of Tabulated t pre test knowledge and posttest knowledge value is more than calculated t value at 29 df for the 0.05 level of significance. Therefore the null hypothesis is accepted. It means there was no association between pretest and posttest knowledge levels. The obtained't ’value 8.09 is greater than the table value at 0.05 level of significant. Therefore't ’value is found to be significant. Hence it is inferred that there is significant difference between the pre test or post test knowledge score secondary school student regarding child abuse and the structural teaching programmed is effective in improving the knowledge of secondary school student.