Revista de Enfermagem e Cuidados

Children are the potential sources of nation. They are the citizen of tomorrow and hence the child health care are rightly called custodian’s tomorrow.

The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge and the practice of mothers regarding prevention of home accidents and to improve the knowledge and practice through information booklet.

The review of literature enabled the investigation to develop the conceptual frame work, methodology for the study and plan for analysis of data in an effective and efficient way. The conceptual frame work adopted for this study was based on health belief model, which focuses on providing knowledge and thread about the consequences of home accidents among mothers of under five children.

The research approach adopted for this study was descriptive approach and the design used in this study was a descriptive design. The tools used for this study was semi structured knowledge questionnaire and observation checklist and sample was interviewed by using semi structured knowledge questionnaire. Milaganoor was selected for this study. Convenient sampling method was used for sample selection. A sample size was 60 mothers of under five children were taken for the study according to the inclusion criteria.

Among the mothers of under five children 17 (28.3%) had adequate knowledge, 19 (31.7%) had moderately adequate knowledge and 24 (40%) had inadequate knowledge.

Among the mothers 17 (28.3%) had good practice, 14 (23.3%) had average practice and 29 (48.4%) had poor practice.

The computed R-value is +0.2428. The positive correlation was found between knowledge and practice. Mothers who had adequate knowledge they followed good practices. Overall, when the knowledge is adequate, the practice is also good.

There is a significant association exist between the knowledge and the educational status of the mother and type of housing. There is significant association exist between the practice and the educational status of the mother, family income and type of housing.