“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EXPERIENCE OF MOLESTATION IN A PUBLIC AREA AMONG GIRLS IN SELECTED COLLEGES OF MEHSANA DISTRICT VIEW TO DEVELOP INFORMATION BOOKLET.”

Author Name: 1Dr. Jayesh V. Patidar ,2Ms. Kajal Patel

Volume/Issue: 03/06

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/12.2022-11192592/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. HOD of Mental health Department, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, Gujrat, India.
2. 2nd Year M.sc Nursing student, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, Gujrat, India.

ABSTRACT

Sexual harassment against women is an incidence of violation of personal space of women by individual or groups of men where they do uninvited sexual advances, unwelcomed gestures, comments, insults, slurs and other obscenities at women in public places. It can exist as any form of sexual contact or activity ranging from verbal abuse to physical assault. The following are the behaviors which could be considered as sexual harassment when they are unwelcomed The aim of study to assess the experience of molestation in public area among college girls. quantitative non experimental descriptive research design was used. by using non probability Convenience sampling technique. 300 girls selected colleges of Mehsana district using Non-Probability Convenience sampling technique. Self- Structured Knowledge Questionnaire. It reveals that experience level (96%) (score: 21-49) of the sample had mild; level experience of molestation ‘while moderate level experience of molestation (score: 50-78) was observed in (4%) of the sample, and ( 0% ) have severe level experience of molestation (score79- 105) There is significant association between the experience and their demographic variables such as religion, frequency of molestation at p≤0.05 level. There is no significant association between the experience and their demographic variables such as age, as age, educational status, socioeconomic status , place of residency, types of molestation , use of transportation, place of molestation, time of molestation p≤ 0.05 level. The finding of the study reveal that samples has mild experience of molestation in public area.

Key words: Assess, experience, molestation , girls