Amal I Khalil
Menoufyia University, Egypt
Title: Impact of an educational program in developing Saudi mother's awareness of Children Sexual Abuse (CSA)
Biography
Biography: Amal I Khalil
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Each child around the world has the right to live his life in peace. Child sexual abuse is a serious public health problem globally.
Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of an educational program targeting children sexual abuse in developing Saudi mothers’ knowledge and awareness about children sexual abuse.
Methods: A quasi-experimental of one group pre-post-test design was used with a convenient sample of 38 mothers who have children in the 81 elementary school affiliated to ministry of education, Jeddah, KSA.
Results: A 38 Saudi mothers’ majority of them (89%) were aged between 20 and 40 years. Majority (57.9%) of them had 4-6 children and has secondary level of education (55.3%). A highly statistically significant difference between pre/post assessment knowledge as P=0.000 with difference in their attitudes but is not significant. While, significant correlation was found between the total score of pre/post knowledge assessment and the mothers’ work state as P=0.000 and 0.037. However, there was a significant difference in the participants post knowledge total score (P=0.006) with number of children in the family P≤0.05 level. Moreover, the age of children and total score of pre/post mothers’ knowledge and attitude, only a negative significant difference was found in pre knowledge participants total score (P=-0.001).
Conclusion & Recommendation: The results concluded that mothers’ knowledge and attitude were inadequate enough to protect their children from CSA in pre assessment with a significant difference in post assessment. Therefore, it is recommended that, conducting more CSA prevention programs for parents and children is an urgent necessity, to increase their knowledge, level of awareness and to change their attitude regarding CSA teaching program, in addition, replication of the current study with longitudinal design that might help in identifying the change of attitudes.