Mothers' Preventive Measures for Preschool Children Home Accidents

Background: Home accidents are becoming more widely acknowledged as a publichealth concern that can be prevented with more knowledge, safe behaviors, and homeenvironment enhancements. Aim: to assess the mothers' preventive measures forpreschool children home accidents. Design: A descriptive study. Setting: The studywas carried out in the pediatric outpatient clinic at Fayoum General Hospital.Sample: A Convenience sample of 150 mothers who have children aged from 3-6years. Tool: Two tools were used for data collection, 1st tool was an interviewingquestionnaire. consists of 3 parts: part 1, mothers' demographic data, part 2,mothers' knowledge about home accidents and its prevention, part 3, mothers'practice about home accidents and its prevention. 2nd tool: Likert scale (1932) toassess mothers' attitudes about home accidents and its prevention. Results: Thefindings revealed that (32%) of all studied samples reported satisfactory knowledgeregarding home accidents prevention, (39.3% ) of all studied samples had acceptablepractice regarding home accidents prevention, while (34.7%) of mothers hold apositive attitude towards home accidents prevention. Conclusion: A significantpositive correlation is observed between knowledge and practice scores, and a strongpositive correlation is found between attitude and practice scores.Recommendation: Enhancing mothers' awareness about safety measures and firstaid to ensure a safe home environment.