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Child abuse is a violation of the basic human rights of a child and is an outcome of a set of interrelated familial, social, psychological and economic factors which adversely affect the health and overall well-being of the child. The main objective of the study is to assess the knowledge regarding child abuse among high school students and to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on the knowledge regarding child abuse. A quasi experimental one group pretest posttest design was adopted. The sample consisted of 100 high school students selected using a non-probability purposive sampling technique. The findings of the study revealed that before administering the structured teaching programme 50(50%) had inadequate knowledge, 40(40%) had moderate knowledge and 10(10%) had adequate knowledge and after administering the structured teaching program 45(45%) had moderate knowledge, 40(40%) had adequate knowledge and 15(15%) had inadequate knowledge .The calculated overall z-score (z= -10.50; p= 0.000) was found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effective.
Vanlalruati et al. (Sun,) studied this question.