Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

‘Sexual abuse ' covers a wide range of unwanted sexual behaviors that are often used by offenders. There are many myths around what constitutes sexual assault is. If a child is sexually assaulted, they might experience a range of emotions and it’s important to know there are support services that can help them. Sexual assault has not always been about sex or abuse, but it has been a way of showing power and control over someone, especially children who are easy prey and vulnerable. Sexual abuse is a serious crime and is never the fault of the victim.1 Most often victims take it as their fault and end up with emotional struggle. The word abuse comes in various forms in relating to children, like luring the children for money or gifts, drug sexting or child pornography.

Keyword: Sexual Abuse; Assault; Child Sexual Abuse; Contact Abuse2; Non contact Abuse2.

 Introduction: A descriptive study to assess the predictive and environmental factors involved in delinquent behavior in a selected juvenile home of Hyderabad, with a view to develop an informational booklet on preventive strategies involved in juvenile delinquency. Methodology: Research design selected for the present study was descriptive research design structured checklist and structured questionnaire 3 point likert scale was used to collect the data from the juvenile delinquent inmates. Purposive sampling method was used to selection of the sample. A total sample size for the study was 60.A selected juvenile home was selected. Results: The study results showed that 38.4% of subjects had mild influence of predictive factor, 56.6% of subjects have moderate influence of predictive factor and 5% of subjects had severe influence of predictive factor. The 65% of delinquents reported mild influence of environmental factor, 33.4% of delinquents reported moderate influence and surprisingly only 1.6% of delinquent had severe influence. In regards to the predictive factors about 45 (75%) were having history of delinquent behavior, 47 (78.3%) had history of violence and 60 (100%) were from broken families, 38.4% of subjects have mild influence of predictive factor, 56.6% of subjects have moderate influence of predictive factor and 5% of subjects have severe influence of predictive factor, The majority of the subjects belonged to socio economic factors 59 (98.3%) and personal factors. There is a significant association between the selected demographic variables like education of juveniles, religion, education of father and education of mother.

Keywords: Predictive Factors; Environmental Factorsand Juvenile Delinquents.

Background: Emotional and behavioral problems are a common concern of parents. The types of problems often differ by the age of the child, and include a wide variety of issues such as conduct problems, aggression, anti-social behavior, anxiety, depression, and substance use. Research indicates that emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood tend to continue into middle childhood and adolescence and may predict later social and academic problems or other difficulties such as substance use. Aims and objectives: The study aimed at assessing the knowledge of Parents regarding emotional and behavioral problem of Children, evaluate the effectiveness of Structure Teaching Programme on childhood emotional and behavioral problem and find out association between pretest knowledge score and selected demographic variables. Material and Methods: A one group pre-test post-test pre-experimental design and evaluative approach was adopted. The study was conducted among 50 parents conveniently selected from two villages from Rajnandgaon District. Results: The results of the study shows that in pre test 56% (28) were having good knowledge, 44% (22) need for improvement. after taking planned teaching program knowledge score were found in post test 70% (35) were having excellent knowledge and 30% (15) were having good knowledge about childhood emotional and behavioural problems. The effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding childhood emotional and behavioral problem among parents and significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge score is evaluated by calculating t value 2.33, D.F (49) is greater than table value (2.02) at the 0.05 level of significance. So these finding shows there will be significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge regarding emotional and behavioral problem among parents. There was association between knowledge with selected sociodemographic variables was found that was calculated by Chi-square analysis. There is significant association between source of information and knowledge score was found. The association as the calculated chi square value is 7.92 (df 3) is greater than table value 7.82 at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: This study concluded that structure teaching program is effective tools to improve the knowledge of parents regarding emotional and Behavioural Problems of Children.

Keywords: Assess; Effectiveness; Knowledge; Structured teaching programme; Selected common emotional and behavioral problems of children; Parents.