1021 Home-related injuries among children: knowledge, attitudes and practice about first aid among rural mothers

Abstract

Injuries to children arising from home accidents are an increasing community health concern. The aim of this cross-sectional study in Qalubeya governorate, Egypt was to measure the incidence and types of home injuries affecting rural children aged up to 12 years and to assess their mothers' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) about first aid and its associated factors. An interview questionnaire was completed by 1450 rural mothers. The incidence of home injuries in the previous 4 weeks was 38.3% (57.5% were boys). Cut wounds, falls and fractures, burns, poisoning and foreign body aspiration were the common forms of home injuries. Mothers answered an average of 11.0 (SD 5.3) out of 29 KAP questions correctly. Younger age of mother, higher level of education, higher socioeconomic status, being in paid employment, source of knowledge about first aid and having attended a training course on first aid were significant predictors of better KAP among mothers.

Mother’s Education and her Knowledge about Home Accident Prevention among Preschool Children in Rural Area in Sharkia Governorate

“…The current study revealed that more than half of injured children (59.3%) were aged ≤ 3 years, this may be due to the younger the child , the higher the frequency of household injuries. This finding contradicted with (Eldosoky , 2011) who revealed that more than half of injured children (50.6%) were aged 9 -12 years. Regarding sex differences it was found that more than half of the injured children were boys (58.7%) than girls (41.3%) this result agrees with (Eldosoky , 2011) who found that the incidence rate of home accidents constituted (57.5%) for boys and (42.5%) for girls and also similar to study in Turkey (53.4% for boys and 46.6% for girls) and ( ztürk C et al, 2010 )who and also agreed with (Mahalakshmy et,al , 2011 ) who found that prevalence of injury was high among male children.…”

“…This finding contradicted with (Eldosoky , 2011) who revealed that more than half of injured children (50.6%) were aged 9 -12 years. Regarding sex differences it was found that more than half of the injured children were boys (58.7%) than girls (41.3%) this result agrees with (Eldosoky , 2011) who found that the incidence rate of home accidents constituted (57.5%) for boys and (42.5%) for girls and also similar to study in Turkey (53.4% for boys and 46.6% for girls) and ( ztürk C et al, 2010 )who and also agreed with (Mahalakshmy et,al , 2011 ) who found that prevalence of injury was high among male children. Differences in regional and sample characteristics may affect the statistical significance of the impact of gender in injuries (Polat S et al, 2005) As regards types of home accidents the present study indicates that Cut/wound represented the highest percentage of home injury (37.3%) and this agrees with ( Abd El-Aty., et al, 2005) who indicated that wounds were the most common accidents among studied children was (37.4%).…”

“…These findings were higher than the present study because of different methodology and different age structure. Other studies conducted by Hamza (2000), El-sabakhy, et al, (1981), Sadek and Ahmed (1989) In spite the importance of a topic like first aid, 20% of the mothers had not hear the term, and those who were familiar with it, 24% reported that T.V and radio were the sources of their knowledge and this contradicted with (Sonavane &, Kasthuri , 2008) who reported higher proportion rate of the studied women had not heard about first aid (65.7%) and agreed with (Eldosoky , 2011) who showed similar results regarding the source of knowledge in which T.V and radio accounted for about 45.8% .…”

Study of socio-demographic patterns and epidemiological correlates of unintentional injuries among 1-5 year children in Moradabad

“…9,11 Similarly a study by Eldosoky et al revealed that 73.4% of the respondents knew about first aid and 56.1% reported that media was their primary source of information. 12 Almost 90% children received first aid either at home or nearby clinic, only 3% needed hospital admission. While in a report from Tripura 91.26% participants/parents said that they gave first aid to their children after any domestic injury.…”

Accident prevention and first aid knowledge among preschool children's parents

“…An adequate amount of first aid knowledge can increase the chances of survival of the injured person. Since children spend most of their time at home, most of the accidents occur at home [7,8]. The most common types of accidents are; falls, burns, drowning, choking, cuts and wounds [7,9].…”