Abstract
Background: Accidents are common among children, although these accidents were not adequately managed by community. And lack of environmental safety worldwide child with retinoblastoma label to home accident. Aim: assessment of home accident among children with retinoblastoma. Design: descriptive analytic design. Setting: at cancer children hospital 57357and parent home. Sampling: A purposeful samples of 100 parents according to specific criteria Tools: three tools were used for data collection. First tool: was an interviewing Questionnaire, (a) Socio – demographic characteristics (b) Assessment of child health need and problem (c) Assessment of parent knowledge about retinoblastoma (d) Assessment parent knowledge and practice according to prevention of home accident. Second tool: Home environment observation check list for assessing the children home safety. Third tool: medical record analysis regarding diagnosis. Results: The most of parent had unsatisfactory 'knowledge about prevention of home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, the most of parent had inadequate practices related prevention of home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, unsafe home environmental measure around two third were unsafe home. Conclusion: the most of parent had unsatisfactory knowledge and inadequate practice to prevent home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, the most of parents had unsatisfactory knowledge about retinoblastoma. Also there is unsafely measure to provide safe home environment for their children. Recommendations: Implement health education regarding prevention of home accident among child with retinoblastoma, instruction of prevention of home accident, First aid training should be provided to parents as an essential need.
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