• Ms. Sweety
• Mrs. Betcy Mathew
• Mr. Karthik Aiyappa Sathyan S.K
• Mrs. Jasdeep Kaur

• Background: Child abuse is extremely difficult to get responses from children on such a sensitive subject because of their inability to fully understand the different dimensions of child abuse and to talk about their experiences. Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding child abuse and its prevention among primary school teachers. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding child abuse and its prevention among primary school teachers. To find an association between the post test knowledge score with their selected socio demographic variables. Material and methods: A Quasi- experimental (one group pre-test post-test) design with a quantitative research approach was used to select 60 primary school teachers by using probability random sampling technique. To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding child abuse and its prevention among primary school teachers. Assessment of knowledge was done by using structured knowledge questionnaire. The findings revealed that, pre-test knowledge level of teachers, i.e. 36 (60%) had inadequate knowledge, 24 (40%) had moderately adequate knowledge, and on one had adequate knowledge and post-test knowledge level of teachers i.e. 43 (71.6%) had adequate knowledge, 17 (28.3%) had moderately adequate knowledge, and none had inadequate knowledge. Result: There was a significant association among primary school teachers had association between the post test knowledge score with their selected socio demographic variables at >0.05 level of significant. Conclusion: The ‘t’ test value for the degree of freedom 59 was 33.76* at 0.05 level of significance and showed the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on child abuse and its prevention.

Assess, structured teaching programme, child abuse, primary school teacher.

"A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CHILD ABUSE AND ITS PREVENTION AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS, BATHINDA, PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 3, page no.954-964, March-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2003142.pdf

"A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CHILD ABUSE AND ITS PREVENTION AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS, BATHINDA, PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 3, page no. pp954-964, March-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2003142.pdf