• Sharmila Poudel
• Deepti K.C
• Harikala Soti
• Rajmi Gurung
• Janaki Chaudhary, Muna Bhattarai

Child abuse is a known challenging problem today. Children are exposed with different forms of abuse like and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect, negligence and commercial or other exploitation, which results in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity. The consequences of these forms of discipline are learning disabilities; behavioral disorders; and depression. The objective of the study is to assess the awareness on girl child abuse among the mothers. A descriptive Cross sectional research design was adopted .Non probability convenient sampling technique for selecting 104 mother having a girl child of less than 19 years and Semi-structured face to face interview schedule was used to collect the data. The study revealed that very few women (22.1%) had good , 37.5 had average and 40.4% had poor level of awareness regarding the girl child abuse. Among the types of abuse, Majority (82.7%) of them, were aware of physical abuse, 66.7% of Sexual abuse, 65.4 %percent of emotional abuse and only 39.4 % of Neglect against girl child. There was a significant association between the number of child and the level of awareness (P=0.001). Though different organizations have been working in the field of child abuse , the study findings reveled that very few percentage of mothers had good level of awareness regarding the girl child abuse .So it is necessary to work from the grass root level conducting awareness raising campaigns to protect our girl child.

Awareness, girl child, abuse

"Awareness Regarding Girl Child Abuse among Mothers Attending Pediatric OPD of a Selected Teaching Hospital of Kaski", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.1003-1018, January-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101130.pdf

"Awareness Regarding Girl Child Abuse among Mothers Attending Pediatric OPD of a Selected Teaching Hospital of Kaski", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no. pp1003-1018, January-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101130.pdf