The effectiveness of educational program about sexuality education and child sexual abuse on knowledge, attitude and behaviors of mothers with 4 -6 year-old child

The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of educational programs about child sexuality education and child sexual abuse (CSA) on knowledge, attitude and behaviors of mothers who had preschool children. There were 57 mothers is this study. They were divided into two case and comparison groups. Each group had 27 members. Both case and comparison groups were given two questionnaires on parental knowledge about children's sexuality and parental attitude in the case of child's sexuality education . There were five educational sessions on sexuality education and CSA prevention for case group, but comparison group had no training. After the sessions both groups responded to the same questionnaire to examine if there were any changes in mothers’ answers. The results of SPSS showed that the educational program has had positive effect on mothers' attitude, knowledge and behavior towards sexuality education and child sexual abuse.