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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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, particularly in children's home injuries.

Objectives

To 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.

Methods

A 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.

Results

About 35% of the male children had home injuries 8 weeks earlier to the study. Mean score

SUBMITTER: El Seifi OS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6013117 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature