The "Body Safety Training Program" is an education program aimed at ensuring children are informed about their body and acquire self-protection skills. In this study, a total of 83 preschoolers were divided into experimental and control groups; based on a power analysis, 40 children comprised the experimental group, while 43 children comprised the control group. The "Body Safety Training Programme" was translated into Turkish and content validity was determined regarding the language and cultural appropriateness. The "What If Situations Test" (WIST) was administered to both groups before and after the training. Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal-Wallis Variance Analysis, and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used to compare between the groups and the Spearman correlation analysis was used to determine the strength of the relationship between the dependent and independent variable. The differences between the pretest and posttest scores for the subscales (appropriate recognition, inappropriate recognition, say, do, tell, and reporting skills), and the personal safety questionnaire (PSQ) score means for the children in the experimental group were found to be statistically significant (p < .001). The posttest-pretest difference score means of the experimental group children for WIST saying, doing, telling and reporting, total skills, and PSQ were found to be statistically significant as compared to that of the control group (p < .05). The "Body Safety Training programme" is effective in increasing the child sexual abuse prevention and self-protection skills in Turkish young children.
Measurement instruments are needed to assess the child's sexual abuse prevention program. The purpose of the study was to determine the reliability and validity of the WIST (What If Situations Test) for Turkish culture. Participants were children of the 3-6 age group attending pre-school education institutions and the sample size was identified by means of a power analysis. Seventy children were identified as the sample with 0.85 power and 0.05 type I error according to the power analysis. Language validity, content validity, internal validity coefficient (Cronbach alpha coefficient), and test-retest analyses were conducted in terms of validity and reliability in the scope of efforts for adaptation to Turkish culture. Firstly, Kendall W = 0.83 was the score for the expert opinions concerning the content validity of the language validity scale. It was found that the Cronbach alpha coefficients were between 0.68 and 0.90 for the scale sub-dimensions of appropriate and inappropriate recognition, saying, doing, telling, and reporting. The test-retest reliability of the scale was found to be r = 0.89 and the test-retest reliabilities for the sub-dimensions (appropriate recognition, inappropriate recognition, say skills, do skills, tell skills, and reporting skills) were between r = 0.48 and r = 0.92. The test-retest reliability for the Personal Safety Questionnaire (PSQ), as having complimentary items to the WIST, was found to be r = 0.82. The reliability and validity analysis of the 'What If' Situations Test (WIST), used to evaluate pre-schoolers' skills regarding self-protection against sexual abuse, showed that the Test's adaptation to Turkish culture was reliable and valid.
MOTHER'S ROLE IN PREVENTING CHILDHOOD HOME ACCIDENTS O papel da mãe na prevenção de acidentes infantis domiciliares RESUMOO trauma tem sido identificado como o maior problema de saúde publica na Turquia e internacionalmente. Na maioria dos países em desenvolvimento, crianças, especialmente na faixa de 0 a 6 anos de idade, estão em risco crescente de acidentes domésticos. O objetivo deste estudo foi desenvolver uma escala de identificação de medidas de segurança contra acidentes domésticos para mães que têm crianças de 0 a 6 anos e de avaliar a eficiência da educação dada a estas mães em prevenir suas crianças contra acidentes domésticos. O estudo foi realizado em duas fases. No primeiro estágio, uma escala tipo Lykert com 5 pontos, composta de 40 itens, foi desenvolvida. A fidedignidade e validade da escala foram testadas em 600 mães que tinham filhos menores de 6 anos e que foram aleatoriamente selecionadas dos registros de centros de atenção primaria de Sakarya. O valor alfa de Cronbach da escala, o qual foi estudado para verificar a fidedignidade e a validade, foi determinado como 0,8205. No segundo estágio, um questionário e a escala desenvolvida pelo investigador foram aplicados em 30 mães aleatoriamente selecionadas. Em duas ocasiões, instruções foram dadas pelo investigador às mães, em seus domicílios, a respeito de prevenção de acidentes domiciliares, com intervalo de 10 dias. Na ultima sessão, foi entregue às mães um "Pequeno Guia para Mães na Prevenção de Acidentes Domiciliares em Crianças de 0 a 6 anos". Diferenças significativas foram encontradas entre os escores médios antes e após as atividades educativas (177,53±9,43 and 185,11±6,48), respectivamente. Após a educação, a taxas de acidentes demonstraram uma queda de 63,3% para 28,3%. Nós concluímos que mães que foram treinadas e receberam o pequeno guia tenderam a aumentar as medidas de segurança domiciliares e suas crianças foram vitimas de menos acidentes. ( 177.53.±9.43 and 185.11 ±6.48 respectively). Following education, accident rates showed a dramatic decrease from 63.3% to 28.3%. We concluded that mothers who were trained and given a guide booklet tended to increase in house safety measures and their children were subject to fewer accidents. Descritores: 0-6 anos; Acidente doméstico; Prevenção ABSTRACT Injury has been identified as a major public health problem in Turkey and internationally. In most developing countries, children, especially in 0 -
This study was planned to assess the association between the sources causing anxiety and whether not the school-age children one informed about the hospital and their illnesses. The study group included the children that were hospitalized because of acute illness, from February 96 to September 96, at Ondokuz Mayıs University Practice and Research Hospital, Department of Pediatr, Sampling group consisted of 60 randomly chosen children:30 of them were control group and 30 were case group. Data were taken by applying the questionnaire that assesses the children is personal data and whether or not they have been informed about the hospital and their illnesses and the form of which the validity and reliability have previously been tested of sources of thought that cause anxiety. Data were evaluated using percentage, yates correction, fisher exact, chi square(x2) and paired Sample t test statistics. It was seen there is no difference between the case and control groups according to age, sex, diagnosis, family structure, living area and social securities. It was shown that grade averages and standart deviations of the case group before and after education. The difference was found to be very significant. It was observed that there was a positive progress, upon giving the education, on the diseases, whether they had knowledge of their drugs and the misgivings about the hospital as compared to the state before giving education.
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The most important food for 0-6 month old babies is of course breast milk. It is important to teach the importance of breast milk, to correct the mistakes in infant feeding, and important to grow healthy babies and healthy generations. A descriptive research was carried out in order to evaluate the factors influencing mothers' and their infants' nutritional status of mothers having 0-6 months-old infants. The study group was composed of 200 mothers with 0-6 months-old infants who voluntarily participated in the research when they went to paediatric department of two private hospitals in Karaman between 15th July, 2013 and 15th August, 2013. The questionnaire form was filled in by the researcher by interviewing the patients face-to-face. The collected data in the research were analysed through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 15.0 version. Definitive statistical methods (number, percentage, average, standard deviation) were used to evaluate the data. X-square test was used in the intergroup comparisons. In interpreting the results, p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. The age range of the mothers taking part in the research was mainly between 19 and 24. Average age of the mothers is 26. 70 ± 5.09 (min: 19, max: 40).54.5 % of the babies were baby girls while 45.5 % of them were baby boys. The age (month)
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