Awareness on good and bad touch among school children in north Gujarat, India

Abstract

It is not common to discuss child sexual assault in open conversation. Hence, it is vital to explain the distinction between good and harmful contact in order to stop harmful touch and preserve the safety of children. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the efficacy of teaching initiatives addressing appropriate and inappropriate touching with a view to reducing child sexual abuse. Thus, an experimental research design was employed. Further, a single group pre-test and post-test design was chosen. The data collected from 60 school children at Visnagar, Gujarat, India. Data shows that the mean post-test knowledge score, which averaged at 16.03, was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score (5.6). Thus, educational programs on child sexual abuse can significantly improve awareness among school children.

Letter to Editor on "Impact of smart phone use on adolescence health in India"

“…Patients who are admitted in hospital for prolonged period may consider android phones as a reasonable source of time pass. However, given their prior health condition, surveying additive negative impact imposed by excess screen time (if any) and optimizing usage of smart gadgets should be undertaken as "High Priority" research following similar protocol as described by Mahalakshmi et al [ 1 ].…”

“…Collection of samples (EDTA venous blood) will be convenient from both patients admitted in hospitals and institutional students. Thus, given an inevitable attachment of smart phones with our lives, where adolescents screen-time engagement are escalating, the issue of health impact and optimal use of gadget should be handled very sensitively yet with "High Priority" [ 1 , 9 , 10 ]. In such surveys I thus suggest to include adolescents from both the groups (a) Students (b) Hospitalized Patients.…”

“…The authors clearly stated the multiple health issues including disturbed sleep, negative impact on short term memory, distress, emotional and spiritual impairment through < 3 hours of smart phone use on an average each day. As former gadget is also a priority in terms of academics, knowledge gain, social connectivity or remaining up-to date, so the article concludes that "Codex on mobile phone use" followed by them was a statistically significant method (P<0.001*** level of significance) providing with satisfactory reduction in smartphone usage in their sampling cohort [ 1 ]. First, I would congratulate the authors for conducting this less explored yet very imperative a study in context of growing smart gadget usage in our country.…”