Children who were left without adult supervision during a significant portion of the day are called as LATCHKEY CHILD. A descriptive study was adopted to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding latchkey children among nursing students. The findings revealed that 100% of the nursing students had in adequate knowledge and 67% of them had negative attitude towards latchkey children. Mean and standard deviation of knowledge score was 7.5 and 2.3 and for attitude score 9 and 1.75. Thus investigator believes that teaching programme will help to enhance their knowledge and make changes in their attitude towards latchkey children.
Knowledge, Attitude, Latchkey children
