Effect of community-based intervention on knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy toward home injuries among Egyptian rural mothers having preschool children.

Omnia S. El Seifi,Naglaa M. Abdo,Eman M. Mortada,Jacobus P. van Wouwe

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198964

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BackgroundParent’s level of knowledge, state of their attitude, and their self-efficacy are the most incriminated reasons for the faulty application of the first aid measures, particularly in children's home injuries.ObjectivesTo assess the effect of a health education intervention on improving knowledge, attitude and self- efficacy of mothers having preschool children about home injuries and the basic first aid measures.MethodsA pre-posttest evaluation of the effect of a health education intervention on changing knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy about home injuries and the basic first aid measures of 244 rural Egyptian mothers having preschool children.ResultsAbout 35% of the male children had home injuries 8 weeks earlier to the study. Mean score of total knowledge increased from 10.21±3.1 in pretest to 18.90 ± 2.6 in posttest, total attitude from 6.19±1.8 to 10.26±2.3 and self-efficacy from 20.75±6.1 to 34.43 ± 10.1 with (p < 0.001) for all changes. Age, education level and previous home injuries were the significant predicting factors for total knowledge, attitude and self- efficacy of the mothers.ConclusionHealth education improves knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy of the mothers which were obvious regarding home injuries than first aid measures. There is a need for including knowledge about home injuries in the educational curriculum of high schools and universities and to perform training courses to mothers about first aid measures.

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Accidents represent a global community health problem with its consequences of morbidities and mortalities [1, 2]
Mean score of total knowledge increased from 10.21±3.1 in pretest to 18.90 ± 2.6 in posttest, total attitude from 6.19±1.8 to 10.26±2.3 and self-efficacy from 20.75±6.1 to 34.43 ± 10.1 with (p < 0.001) for all changes
Community based intervention for home injuries knowledge about home injuries in the educational curriculum of high schools and universities and to perform training courses to mothers about first aid measures

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Accidents represent a global community health problem with its consequences of morbidities and mortalities [1, 2]. Accidents could happen in a wide assortment of situations; 40% of deaths and half of the injuries occur in and around the home, mainly in the age between one to five years old boys’ children [3, 4]. In Egypt, home injuries have turned into a general public health issue and the main cause disabilities in preschool age [5]. Preschool children are vulnerable to many types of home injuries, such as wounds, falls, burns, choking and suffocation, poisoning, and electrical shock. These injuries could be prevented, its occurrence may result in death or significant disability [10, 11]. Parent’s level of knowledge, state of their attitude, and their self-efficacy are the most incriminated reasons for the faulty application of the first aid measures, in children’s home injuries

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