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    The effect of child abuse on school performance. A case study of primary schools in Malaba town council, Tororo district.
    (Busitema University, 2024) Ariko Dorcus
    The study sought the relationship between child abuse and pupil’s performance in Malaba Town Council, Tororo District, Uganda. The objectives of the study were to identify the forms of child abuse, establish the effects of child abuse on the performance and to suggest ways of improving pupil’s performance in Malaba Town Council, Tororo District. The study adopted case study methods. Data were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative data methods. The quantitative data analysis methods were descriptive statistics that included frequencies, percentages and means, and inferential analyses that were correlation and regression analyses. The study findings are; half of the pupils (65%) did not work for pay, profit, family or exchange or home use, the children had own employment, casual and unpaid family employment, the 25% of the pupils involved in non-paying activities. Majority of the pupils (75%) were exposed to labor, a high percent of teachers (50%) rated the pupil’s performance in class as good. The results disagree with those of 15% of the respondents who noted that pupils’ performance was poor. The study concluded that; government and other stakeholders to discourage child abuse from the family level, children should be sensitized on the importance of education, the school management should encourage both the parents to send their children to school since this eventually would reduce poverty in their homes when their children have received education and the government to help in curbing dropout rates by empowering parents through self-help programs.