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INTRODUCTION: One of the most important factors for a society to develop and progress is that the children in that society grow up healthily, socially and mentally. The level of awareness of child abuse and neglect has been a topic of discussion. The aim of our study is to detect the level of the knowledge of child abuse and neglect among teachers, health care workers and 1st year university students and by using the ideas of create a base for further studies that will help child abuse. METHODS: In this study, 70 health care workers, 95 teachers and 200 students participated, including 365 people. The survey questions are based on World Health Organization's (WHO’s) child abuse and neglect definition. The data about the level of knowledge of child abuse and neglect among health care workers, teachers and the students who just started university, has taken with face-to-face survey method. RESULTS: The results of our study showed most of the participants have insufficient knowledge about child abuse and neglect. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The data revealed that considering the local features, there is a need to create education programmes about child abuse and they should be integrated with pre-university education.

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