Safety Disabled Children from Risk of Sexual Harassment by Their Mothers
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Sexual harassment is unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of sexual nature. Children's with disability are three times more likely to be abused than children without disability.The present studyaimed to evaluate the effect of safety educational program for mothers to protect their disabled children from sexual harassment.Studydesign: A qausi-experimental design was utilized.The study Setting: was carried out in (My son dreamsandtowards a better childhood centers)at Damietta City. Sample: A purposive sample of 70 mothers out of total numbers (700 children with different disability). Tools: Data were collected through: An interviewing questionnaire to assess mothers’ demographic characteristics, sexual harassment knowledge, and Likert scale to assess mothers' attitudes related to child sexual harassment safety educational program and questionnaire to assess mothers' practices through asking questions related to disabled child sexual development and sexual harassment safety. Results: The results of the current study showed that, 37.1% of studied mothers aged 30 years or more while 61.4% of their children's aged 6 years or more. Also, there were highly statistically significant differences between pre and post implementation of sexual harassment safety program of studied participants regarding their level of knowledge and their practices. Also, highly statistically significant difference was found between pre and post implementation of program of studied participants concerning their attitudes toward safety sexual harassment education where p: (<0.001). Conclusion: The sexual harassment safety educational programenhanced mothers' knowledge, practices, and changed positively their attitudes toward disabled child sexual harassment safety education. Recommendation: This study recommended that the need for continuous of child sexual harassment safety programs to improve mothers’ knowledge, attitude and practices to protect their disabled children.
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Samia A. Elnagar, Mona Younes
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