Notice of RetractionChild abuse: A study on public perceptions about relationship between demographic factors and level of awareness towards child abuse

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Notice of Retraction

After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

This article presents the results of an investigation into public perceptions of the relationship between demographic factors and levels of awareness towards child abuse. The research objectives are to identify the level of awareness towards child abuse amongst the public, to ascertain the relationship between demographic factors and levels of awareness towards child abuse and to determine the differences in awareness towards child abuse according to gender, age, marital status, and race/ethnicity. The researchers identified four independent variables which are gender perceptions, age perceptions, marital status perceptions and also race/ethnicity perceptions. The study generated a 200-respondent sample from the general public. The research w as conducted using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 16.0 and the data was analyzed using Pearson´s correlation. The results indicate positive correlations between levels of awareness towards child abuse and the four independent variables.