An Educational Program for Mothers to Protect their Children from Sexual Harassment

Document Type : Original Article

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Community Health Nursing department-Faculty of Nursing- Ain Shams University.

Abstract

Background: Sexual harassment is a real and serious problem that can affect any child or
youth regardless of gender, race, religion, ethnic, age groups and occurs at all socioeconomic levels.
Aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of an educational program for mothers to protect their
children from sexual harassment. Research design: A quasi experimental design was used, setting:
The study was conduct at Shoubra maternal and child health care center it selected randomly from
Shoubra district in Cairo governorate. Sample: A purposive sample of 110 mother their children age
from 4 to 18years, regardless the gender. The tools of this study included, an interviewing
questionnaire for mothers to assess mothers knowledge and behaviors. Results: findings of the
present study, revealed that, there were highly statistically significant differences between pre and
post educational program related to mothers' knowledge and behaviors. There were improvement of
the mothers' knowledge and behaviors after the program implementation. conclusion the mothers
improved their knowledge and behaviors related to protection of their children from sexual
harassment. Recommendation: The sexual harassment educational program must be provided for
all parents of children to improve their knowledge about sexual harassment, an-orientation program
for newly mothers to improve mothers knowledge level about sexual harassment and mass media
could efficiently be utilized to offer specific educational programs to community to raise the
mothers' knowledge about protection of their children from sexual harassment.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 11, Issue 1
March 2020
Pages 205-218

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