Ahmad A Kamangu, Maurice C Y Mbago
Provision of sexual health education in secondary schools: A multidisciplinary lens of stakeholders in southern highlands, Tanzania
Heliyon
issue child physical abuse cpa complex challenging study according world health organization fact sheets 2020 3 4 children 2 4 years age regularly face physical maltreatment parents caregivers may cause lifelong impact physical mental health assess parents knowledge evaluate effectiveness structured teaching program stp regarding child physical abuse cpa among parents preexperimental onegroup pretest posttest design adopted study parents children admitted treatment child psychiatry centre cpc tertiary care referral center january 2019 january 2020 recruited study thirty parents recruited convenience sampling technique study conducted online platform zoom pretest posttests conducted google survey form data collected selfdeveloped knowledge questionnaire cap online structured teaching program stp administered three alternative days pretest assessment posttest assessment conducted twopoint time immediately stp oneweek gap descriptive inferential statistics used analyze data onegroup pretest posttest design adopted study parents children admitted treatment child psychiatry centre cpc tertiary care referral center january 2019 january 2020 recruited study thirty parents recruited convenience sampling technique study conducted online platform zoom pretest posttests conducted google survey form data collected selfdeveloped knowledge questionnaire cap online structured teaching program stp administered three alternative days pretest assessment posttest assessment conducted twopoint time immediately stp oneweek gap descriptive inferential statistics used analyze data pretest knowledge assessment means score regarding child physical abuse found 12 standard deviation 173 posttest one 1730 139 posttest two 16 155 p 0001 analysis revealed statistically significant improvement found posttest knowledge regarding child physical abuse among parents significant p 005 relationship found sociodemographic variables participants preintervention knowledge scores child physical abuse study findings reveal parents fair knowledge cpa stp effective feasible administer improving subjects knowledge regarding child physical abuse