Abstract
Background/Objectives: This study was designed to explore nursing students’ awareness, knowledge,attitude on child abuse.Method/Statistical analysis: The descriptive research design was conducted by administering onlinequestionnaire to 299 nursing students at two university in J city. Data analysis was performed using SPSSWIN 25.0 program.Findings: The mean scores of child abuse awareness, knowledge and attitude were 175.42±10.69, 3.89±1.83and 28.94±6.57 respectively. Awareness, knowledge and attitude on child abuse were significantly positivelycorrelated. In addition, the number of education on child abuse was positively correlated with awareness,knowledge and attitude on child abuse. Factors influencing child abuse attitude were frequency of childabuse education, awareness and knowledge (R2 = .222).Improvements/Applications: Based on this results, the development of education programs and guidelinesto help nursing students detect child abuse and improve reporting rates is important. Thus, we suggest thatnursing students be provided with educational protocol for detection, including report of child abuse.
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