Pre-Experimental Study Regarding Prevention of Home Accident Among Mothers of Under Five Year Children in Selected Rural Area, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Children are by nature accident prone. The greatest number of accidental injuries occurs in 2-3 years and 5-year age. Most children are injured at home and older children are injured outside the home. Mothers of under five-year-old children are the best group in order to implement educational programs since they play caring and supportive roles for their children. Objective: To assess the knowledge on prevention of home accident among mothers of under five-year children. To find out the effectiveness of Structured teaching programme on prevention of home accident. To find out association between pre-test knowledge score with selected socio demographic variables. Methodology: An evaluative study approach with pre-experimental research design one group pre-test post-test design was used for the study. The study was conducted in selected rural area of Bilaspur (C.G.). The sample of the study chosen by non-probability Purposive Sampling Technique, which includes 60 mothers of under five-year children. A self-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data was analyzed on the basis of the descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The result showed that post-test mean score (16.4) was significantly higher than pre-test mean score (10.78). The ‘t’ value of the study was 15.21 at P<0.05 The study revealed that the Structured teaching programme on prevention of home accidents among mothers of under five Years children was highly effective. The finding of the study also revealed that there was significant association between pre-test knowledge score with selected socio demographic variables like type of family & monthly income of family. The study finding revealed that there is no significant association between the level of knowledge with their selected demo-graphic variables like age, education, number of children, occupation of mother, and source of previous knowledge. Conclusion: The study indicate that pre-test knowledge score was poor among mother of under five-year children regarding prevention of home accident and after administration of Structured teaching programme, post-test knowledge score become increased as compare to pre-test knowledge score. There is need to give interventional program to improve knowledge prevention of home accidents for positive health impact and better quality of life on children.