THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AMONG MOTHERS
Authors: Gladies Jabaseeli 
Published: June 2024

Back ground of the study: Children exposed to domestic violence, especially repeated violence, are at risk for many problems now and in the future. These include sleep, eating, and other bodily functions; emotional problems such as depression, aggression, and anxiety; problems in family and friend relationships; and problems with listening, thinking, and learning. Caretakers often believe that they are keeping their children safe, but living in these homes report differently. Timely intervention is important for the care of children who witness domestic violence. Assessing physical and emotional health needs can help care givers better care for injured children Objectives of the study: 1. To assess the level of knowledge of mothers regarding impact of domestic violence on emotional and social development of children. 2. To assess the level of attitude of mothers regarding impact of domestic violence on emotional and social development of children. 3. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme among mothers regarding impact of domestic violence on emotional and social development of children. 4. To find out the relationship between Post-test knowledge score and post-test attitude score. 5. To determine the association between • Post-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. • Post-test attitude score with selected demographic variables. Hypothesis: H1: The mean post-test knowledge score of mothers who had structured teaching programme regarding impact of domestic violence on emotional and social development of children is significantly higher than pre-test knowledge score. H2: The mean post-test attitude score of mothers who had structured teaching programme regarding impact of domestic violence on emotional and social development of children is significantly higher than pre-test attitude score. H3: There is a significant relationship between post-test knowledge scores and post-test attitude scores among mothers who received structured teaching programme on domestic violence. H4: (a) There is a significant association between post-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. H4: (a) There is a significant association between post-test attitude score with selected demographic variables. Method:The research approach adopted to this study is quasi experimental one group pre-test and post-test design. The setting is at Tavarekere, Bangalore. The sample size was 30 mothers. The tool consists of section-A demographic proforma consisting of 8 items, section-B self administered questionnaire consisting of 25 items, section –C structured attitude scale consisting of 15 items. The content validity was established by subjecting the tool to experts in this field and the reliability of the tool was established by using split half technique and value was found to be 0.6 for knowledge questionnaire and 0.5 for attitude scale. Results:In relation to the knowledge, in the pre-test, 21 (70%) had inadequate knowledge, 9(30%) had average knowledge and no one had adequate knowledge. In the post-test, majority of them that is 26 (86.7%) had adequate knowledge, 4 (13.3%) average knowledge and none of them had inadequate knowledge.In relation to attitude in the pre-test, majority of them 27(90%) had positive attitude and 3(10%) had negative attitude. In the post-test, all 30(100%) had positive attitude. It shows that mean post test knowledge score 21.5 with SD 2.55 is higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score 8.86 with SD 2.57. In order to test the difference between the two means, paired t test was computed and obtained t value 6.64 was found to be significant at 0.05 level and 0.01 level. Hence, it is inferred that there was significant increase in the level of knowledge of mothers on domestic violence after the structured teaching program, so hypothesis H1 was accepted. Mean post test attitude score 60.36 with SD 3.63 is higher than the mean pre-test attitude score 41.8 with SD 4.28. In order to test the difference between the two means, paired t test was computed and obtained t value 4.82 was found to be significant at 0.05 level and 0.01 level. Hence, it is shown that there is significant increase in the level of attitude of mothers on domestic violence after the structured teaching program, so hypothesis H2 was accepted. The obtained mean post-test knowledge value was 21.5 and post-test attitude was 60.36; the r-value is 0.347 which is significant at 0.01 and 0.05 level. It shows that there is relationship between post-test knowledge and post-test attitude scores. Hence hypothesis H3 stated that there is significant relationship between post-test knowledge scores and post-test attitude scores was accepted. There is statistically moderate association between the selected demographic variable like type of marriage and post-test knowledge score. But other demographic variables like age, religion, educational qualification, occupation, family income, type of family are not significantly associated with post-test knowledge scores. Hence hypothesis H4 (a) stated that there will be significant association between post-test knowledge scores with selected demographic variables, was accepted. There is no association between the selected demographic variables and post-test attitude score. Hence hypothesis H4 (b) was rejected which stated that there will be significant association between post-test attitude scores with selected demographic variables. Interpretation and conclusion: It can be inferred that the knowledge score of mothers regarding domestic violence were inadequate during the pre-test and was increased after the administration of structured teaching programme. It is found that the attitude score were considerably more in the pre-test itself.