Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect: A Prospective Interventional Study among Schoolteachers from Andhra Pradesh.

IF 1.4 Q3 PEDIATRICS Pediatric Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI:10.3390/pediatric16010015

Anuja Singaraju, Venkata Ratna Kumar Rudravaram, Sivakumar Nuvvula, Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni

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Aim: To assess the awareness of schoolteachers from Andhra Pradesh towards child abuse and neglect (CAN) through pre- and post-educational intervention (audiovisual aid) questionnaires.

Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 300 schoolteachers using a 12-item questionnaire that was created using the standard focus group discussion method. Baseline awareness of CAN was assessed using the questionnaire. Subsequently, all the schoolteachers were educated regarding the various types of CAN and the process of reporting CAN using an audiovisual aid. The same questionnaire was re-administered to all the teachers immediately after the intervention and after three months. The data were statistically analyzed using Fisher's exact test to compare the frequency and distribution of responses among the study participants at various intervals.

Results: A statistically significant difference (p value < 0.05) was observed in the awareness of the schoolteachers regarding CAN compared to the baseline and immediately after the intervention. However, there was no statistically significant difference (p value > 0.05) between immediately after the intervention and three months.

Conclusion: There is a need to have awareness among schoolteachers concerning CAN. However, after education through audiovisual aids, teachers' awareness of CAN has been improved.

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对虐待和忽视儿童问题的认识：对安得拉邦学校教师的前瞻性干预研究。

目的：通过教育干预（视听辅助）前后的问卷调查，评估安得拉邦学校教师对虐待和忽视儿童（CAN）的认识：对 300 名学校教师进行了横断面研究，采用标准焦点小组讨论法制作了一份包含 12 个项目的调查问卷。通过问卷评估了对 CAN 的基本认识。随后，利用视听辅助工具对所有教师进行了有关 CAN 的各种类型和报告 CAN 流程的教育。干预结束后和三个月后，对所有教师重新进行了相同的问卷调查。采用费雪精确检验对数据进行了统计分析，以比较研究参与者在不同时间段的回答频率和分布情况：与基线和干预结束后相比，学校教师对 CAN 的认识在统计学上有明显差异（P 值小于 0.05）。然而，在干预结束后的第一时间和三个月之间没有明显的统计学差异（p 值 > 0.05）：结论：有必要提高学校教师对 CAN 的认识。然而，通过视听辅助工具进行教育后，教师对 CAN 的认识有所提高。

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