The  study has been conducted to enhance the knowledge of mothers about child abuse and its preventive measures. Child abuse is a significant problem that requires an effective means of prevention. The research appoarch was an quasi experimental approach and the research design was one group pre-test  post-test design . Non probability purposive sample technique was applied for data collection. The main study was conducted in kalapani, Bhopal, M.P.

Keywords: Child abuse; Structure teaching programme.