Mother knowledge toward Poisoning Among Children Under Five Years at home Abuseed_ Omdurman locality

Abstract

Abstract

Recently poisoning at home became one of the common prevailing

problems in Sudan. Mothers in the home are more contact to children; they

have to be aware about the poisoning, sign of poisoning and the methods to

prevent the child. This descriptive cross sectional community base study

design.

Current study

aim

to assess mother knowledge towards poisoning

among children under five years at home. The study

involved

100 mothers

who selected by simple

random

sampling. The data collected by

questionnaire

consisting of parts:

The f

irst

part

:

was designed to assess the

socio demographic data of participants

included four questions from (1-4)

The second part

:

was developed to collect data about the

participants

about

definition of poisoning, occurrence of poisoning pre house and type of

poisoning(5-7).The third part:

was designed to collect data the knowledge of

mother about the sign and symptoms, immediate intervention and prevention

of (food poisoning, medication poisoning, and chemical poisoning) and

complication (8-19)

analyzed

by statistical package of social science

version 16 and

presented

by table and figures. The most important

results

they not significant statistical relation between the age and knowledge of

mother about immediate intervention of food poisoning significant

statistical relation between the level of education and sign of food poisoning

significant statistical relation between the level of education and

complication of poisoning.

Concluded

that showed good knowledge of

study population regarding sign and symptoms and complication and poor

knowledge regarding immediate intervention and prevention.

Key words:

Knowledge Poisoning Prevention Intervention