Nurse-led body protection education was provided to the intervention group in groups of 3-4 in 40 minutes. The education was provided as verbal narration by using a doll and distress whistle. In addition, two weeks after the post-test, a reminder education brochure prepared with the braille alphabet was distributed to the students in the intervention group.

Pretest, posttest and follow-up test were applied simultaneously to the intervention group and the control group. Throughout the research, the control group continued their routine education. After the follow-up test, the control group was also provided with nurse-led body protection education.

Based on BST and Safe Touches education programs and in line with the studies conducted in the literature on children who are not visually impaired, NLBPE was created by the researchers (Akgul et al., 2021; Citak-Tunc et al., 2018; Pulido, 2019; Wurtele, 2007). The program aims to teach visually impaired children how to protect the private parts of their bodies, to distinguish between good and bad touch, to distinguish between good and bad secrets, to say no, scream, and ask for help when necessary. As education tools, dolls and distress whistles were used. In order for children to learn the private parts of their bodies, a doll was used. The practice of "Say No, Scream, Run, and Blow Your Whistle While Running" in order for the students to protect their body from bad touch was applied by the students one by one firstly, and in groups later.

The Good Touch subscale of the Children's Knowledge of Abuse Questionnaire-Revised scale was applied in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up test. The scale was developed by Tutty in 1992 and finalized by revising in 1995 (Tutty, 1997). The Turkish adaptation study of the scale was conducted by Yilmaz and Cenkseven-Onder (2020). Eight items on the scale (1, 3, 8, 17, 20, 25, 27 and 30) are under the Good Touch subdimension. The responses to the items are in the form of Correct, Incorrect, and Don't Know. In the analysis of the scale, "correct" answers are scored as 1 point, and "incorrect" and "Don't Know" responses are scored as 0 point.

The Bad Touch subscale of the Children's Knowledge of Abuse Questionnaire-Revised scale was applied in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up test. The scale was developed by Tutty in 1992 and finalized by revising in 1995 (Tutty, 1997). The Turkish adaptation study of the scale was conducted by Yilmaz and Cenkseven-Onder (2020). 22 items are under the Bad Touch subdimension. The responses to the items are in the form of Correct, Incorrect, and Don't Know. In the analysis of the scale, "correct" answers are scored as 1 point, and "incorrect" and "Don't Know" responses are scored as 0 point.