A Comparative Study to Assess the Level of Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Home Accidents Among Mothers of Under Five-Year Children in Selected Urban and Rural Area of Bhilai, Durg, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Introduction: Each year, tens of thousands of accidents occur worldwide. Accidents can take place in a wide variety of environments and there is a possibility of accidents in every sphere of human life: at home, while travelling, at play and at work. However, the home is the most likely location. Home accidents are a major cause of death and injury. They produce major costs in terms of loss of life, pain and suffering as well as lost production and wages for the employed injured. The living condition in the rural areas as cooking over open areas leads to burns and scars badly build poor houses and poor maintenance such as they're without railing might cause falls. Accidental drinking of kerosene stored in soft drink bottle leading to poisoning of children this and all happened in the house for lack of supervision of the mothers. In fact, children under 5 years of age home accidents account for half of unintentional deaths, because small children can easily choke on food or other small objects. They are inclined to put their mouths common objects found around your house such as plastic shopping bags and other safe material also pose a danger burns and scalds are more serious in children than in adults. Accidents all over the world are one of the leading health problems. Therefore various programs have been developed to prevent accidents. The most important way to protect against accidents in the primary prevention is to educate society, especially parents is to be educated about prevention of accidents and first aid to reduce accidents. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention of home accidents among mothers of under five-year children in selected urban and rural area of Bhilai, Durg (C.G.) Material and Method: Comparative research design was adopted to conduct the study. Target population was mothers of under five year children. A purposive sampling was used for selecting mothers from Urban area Kohka Bhilai Durg Rural area Jeora Durg (C.G). To obtain necessary data for the study, the tool was developed which included self structured socio demographic data and self structured questionnaire. And self structure questionnaire consist of 40 questions and each questions contain 4 multiple choice option. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential analysis. Results: A Comparative study was undertaken to assess the level of knowledge regarding prevention of home accidents among mothers of under five-year children. The results conveyed that in overall analysis majority 21 (70%) mothers had good knowledge, 9(30%) mothers had excellent knowledge and none of the mothers had poor and average knowledge score regarding prevention of home accident. While in rural area , majority 15 (50%) mothers had average knowledge, 8(26.66%) mothers had good knowledge, 7(23.33%) mother had poor knowledge and none of the mothers had excellent knowledge score regarding prevention of home accident. In the comparison between urban area mother and rural area mother level of knowledge score regarding prevention of home accident, in urban area mother mean score is 27.4 and rural area mother mean score is 16.66. This clearly show that there was significant difference between the urban area mother and rural area mother mean score. In the urban area mother mean score 27.4 is greater than the rural area mother mean score 16.66. Conclusion: The study data concluded that urban area mothers level of knowledge regarding prevention of home accident is high as compare to rural area mothers knowledge regarding prevention of home accident.