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Mothers’ Perception for Protection of their Children from Sexual Abuse

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community health nursing

Abstract

Background: Child sexual abuse is a type of violence against children that has received
significant concern worldwide which lead to short-term and long-term consequences, also a
worrisome burden to the family and society. Aim of study: Was to assess mothers` perception for
protection of their children from sexual abuse. Research design: A descriptive design was utilized
in this study. Setting: This study was conducted at Benha Maternal and Child Health center (B),
Kafr-Shokr Maternal and Child Health center, Shiben-El-Kanater Maternal and Child Health center
and Kalyub El-Balad Maternal and Child Health center. Sample: Simple random sample of
mothers, total sample size was 381 mothers. Tools: Two tools were used, I): A structured
interviewing questionnaire to assess a): Child's characteristics, mothers' socio- demographic
characteristics, b): Knowledge of mothers about protection of children from sexual abuse, c):
Reported practice of mothers for protection of their children from sexual abuse and d): Attitude of
mothers regarding protection from child sexual abuse and II): Child sexual abuse myths scale to
assess false beliefs of mother toward child sexual abuse. Results: 58.8% of mothers had average
total knowledge level regarding protection of children from sexual abuse while 60.1% of them had
unsatisfactory total reported practices level regarding protection of children from sexual abuse and
66.9% of them had positive total attitude regarding protection of their children from sexual abuse.
Conclusion: There were positive statistically significant correlation between mothers' total
knowledge, total reported practices and total attitude regarding protection of their children from
sexual abuse. Recommendations: Health education program should be developed and implemented
for mothers regarding child sexual abuse to improve their knowledge and practices to protect their
children from sexual abuse.

DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2022.248206

Keywords

Key words: Children, Mothers, perception, Sexual Abuse

Authors

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Heba

Last Name

Adel Ali Mohamed

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Affiliation

Demonstrator of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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First Name

Howyida

Last Name

Sadek Abd El-Hameed

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Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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First Name

Ahlam

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Elahmady Sarhan

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Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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First Name

Wafaa

Last Name

Atta Mohamed

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Affiliation

Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

35042

Issue Date

2022-07-01

Receive Date

2022-06-01

Publish Date

2022-07-01

Page Start

969

Page End

985

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

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JNSBU_Volume 3_Issue 2_Pages 969-985.pdf

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/article_248206.html

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Scientific peer reviewed journal

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1,622

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Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Mothers’ Perception for Protection of their Children from Sexual Abuse

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23 Jan 2023