Iran Journal of Nursing

  The research is a descriptive analytic study for assessing the knowledge of nurses, working in pediatric wards

  regarding the concept of• Child Abuse in Tehran.

  A total of 100 pediatric nurses who worked in general and sick-children hospitals were chosen randomly

  and participated in this study. Data collection was performed with a questionnaire . The tool was a two part

  questionnaire with the first part including demographic characteristics of the subjects, like age, .sex. marriage,

  past experience in nursing and experience on children units. The second pan posed questions regarding the

  assessment of knowledge towards the concept of child abuse", The procedures used for data analysis were

  percentage of absolute and relative frequency, chi-square test, and pearson coefficient of correlation .

  The results of this study showed that, there are significant differences between high level of awarenes of

  surveyed nurses and level of their eduction more than B Sc. degree . passing short- period education regarding

  the research matter and the acquiring information from mass- media and academic education in nursing . On the

  other hand . there is no relationship between the nurses knowledge about child abuse problem and factors such

  as: age, marriage situation, and job records in pediatric units , The overall findings revealed that the nurses

  awareness rate in most of the cases (49%) were medium and in least of the cases (23%) were low and in 28%

  of the participants were high in relation to the final goal Based on die findings , suggestions for further