Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pediatric Residents towards Child Abuse in Three selected Hospitals, in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, 2021.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr.Moges, Ayalew(Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, Pediatric Neurologist) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr.Tefera, Muluwork (Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, Pediatrics Emergency and Critical Care Sub - Specialist) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gelesu, Kidist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-25T07:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:33:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-25T07:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:33:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/29610 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Knowledge, attitude, practice, child abuse, pediatrics residents, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pediatric Residents towards Child Abuse in Three selected Hospitals, in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, 2021. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |