The Effects of Sexual Abuse on Students’ in Public Senior High Schools in Ghana
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Joseph Kweku Prah, Social Sciences Department, Kwegyir Aggrey Senior High School, Anomabo, Ghana.
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Anthony Bordoh, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Enchi College of Education, Enchi, Ghana.
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Isaac Eshun, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Enchi College of Education, Enchi, Ghana.
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Shani Osman, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Tumu College of Education, Tumu, Ghana.
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Patrick Kwarteng, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Wiawso College of Education, Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana.
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Theophilus Kweku Bassaw, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Komenda College of Education, Komenda, Ghana.
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Sophia Andoh, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Holy Child College of Education, Takoradi, Ghana.
Student sexual abuse is a reality in our senior high schools and its effects is on the rise. To find how grievous sexual abuse in senior high schools is, the study examined the effects of sexual abuse in public senior high schools. The research was conducted in four (4) different public senior high schools in the Mfantsiman Municipality as one case study. Simple size of 403 students and 20 teachers as participants were employed for the study, simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used to select the respondents. A structured questionnaire was used to solicit data from the respondents. The data were presented in the form of percentages and frequency tables to facilitate clearer and easier interpretation of results for the presentation of findings. The result is that sexual abuse of students has enormous negative effects on students, these include social effects, psychological and gynaecological disorders, poor and cognition difficulties, poor and academic performance, and acquisition of diseases and direct and indirect- cost on these sexually abused students. It is recommended thatpublic awareness of student sexual abuse must be intensified through the media for the general public to know about sexual abuse and its effects on the development of students.
Effects, Sexual, Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Students, Senior High Schools(SHS’s), Central Region, Ghana
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