Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pediatric Residents towards Child Abuse in Three selected Hospitals, in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, 2021.
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2021-11
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: - Child abuse is not only physical abuse, but it can be in the form of emotional
abuse involving humiliating a child, coercive, constant belittling, shaming, frequent yelling,
threatening, or bullying of the child, making negative comparisons to others, rejecting and
ignoring the child as punishment, having limited physical contact with the child (no signs of
affection), or any other demeaning acts. Obtaining a detailed history and judging parent child
interaction are important tools of identification. Lack of clinicians’ knowledge or clinical
experience more often results in misdiagnosis and under reporting of the cases of abuse. This
study is being carried out to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of child abuse and its
management among pediatric residents.
Objective: -Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of pediatric residents towards child
abuse in three selected hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
Method: - Institutional based Cross-sectional study design was employed with facility based
self-administer question among pediatrics residents with sample size of 135.Data were checked,
cleaned and entered in to SPSS version 25.0 software for analysis. The magnitude and the
association between the different independent variables in relation to dependent was measured
and 95% confidence interval (CI) and P values below 0.05 were considered statistically
significant.
Result: -The knowledge attitude and practice of pediatric and child health resident on child
abuse were significantly low (50%, 56% and 43%) respectively. The determinant of knowledge
was participant having formal teaching, learning or training session on child abuse attitude
regarding to the topic and the determinant of attitude were married status and knowledge and the determinants of participants practice were years resident and experienced on child abuse
treatment/ management.
Recommendation: -the recommendation goes to : for the study participant, better to see
concentrated about child abuse issues to solve and alleviate the problem as you are a ground
back bone. For the institution/ department: - better to put standard protocol of knowledge
measurement of pediatric resident regarding to child abuse, due to the fact of the issue
community problem. For research: - better to assess by mixed study as a national level.
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Knowledge, attitude, practice, child abuse, pediatrics residents, Ethiopia