Editorial – The Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: a partnership

Effect of Health Educational Program on Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes of Mothers toward Child Maltreatment

“…This resulted from having high educational level and high level of knowledge about child abuse pre-program so they understand how to deal with their children and used positive parenting practices. This was supported by the results of Tonmyr (2015) and MacGregor JC et al (2014) who reported that corporal punishment was principally used as a child rearing method by mothers with little education and lack of knowledge about child rearing while the most common behavior used by those mothers was Slapping (46,47) . Regarding levels of mothers' practices, the majority of mothers showed unsatisfactory practice pre-program (Figure 2).…”