Knowledge regarding Prevention of Home Accidents among mothers of under five children in Pediatric Department, Bangalore.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Home accidents are an important public health problem worldwide among under five children lead to disability in early years of life affecting their opportunities to lead a healthy life. Though there are many factors responsible for injury at home Mothers knowledge and the environment plays an important role.OBJECTIVES The study aimed to assess the knowledge regarding prevention of home accidents among mothers of under five children and also to determine the association between knowledge of mothers with their selected socio-demographic variables.METHODS Non- experimental descriptive approach quantitative design was adopted for the study. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to select 60 mothers of under five children based on inclusion criteria who attended pediatric department of the selected hospital Bangaluru. Data collection tool consisted of a structured Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 using Descriptive statistics for frequency and percentage inferential statistics for Chi square test to find out the statistically significance at the level of P lt0.05.RESULTS The study findings showed that 63.3 of the mothers had inadequate knowledge 35 had moderate knowledge and 1.7 of the mothers had adequate knowledge. there was no significant association between mothers knowledge and socio demographic variables P lt0.05.Whereas there is significant association found to exist between gender of the child and knowledge of mothers P lt0.05.CONCLUSION Child safety is one of the most important social values that demands attention hence these findings therefore call for prompt and target group interventions to overcome knowledge gap