Annelerin temizlik maddelerinin saklama koşulları ve riskleri ile ilgili bilgi düzeyleri

Amaç: Temizlik maddelerine bağlı yaralanmaların çocuklarda sık görülmesi nedeniyle, 1-4 yaş arası çocuğu olan annelerin, temizlik maddelerine bağlı yaralanmalarla ilgili bilgi düzeylerini saptamak. Gereç-yöntem: Kesitsel tipteki araştırma, 19 Nisan- 11 Haziran 2004 tarihleri arasında, Kızılay Sağlık Ocağı'na bağlı tek ebe bölgesinde 1-4 yaş arası çocuğu olan tüm anneleri (128 anne) kapsamaktadır. 37 başlıklı anket, annelere yüz yüze görüşme tekniği ile uygulanmıştır. Annelerin kilitli deterjan kapağını açma becerileri de değerlendirilmiş ve not edilmiştir. Uygulamadan sonra annelere, herhangi bir zarar durumunda yapılacaklar konusunda ilk yardım bilgisi verilmiştir. Bulgular: Annelerin % 4,7'si çocuklarının (5 çocuk) herhangi bir temizlik maddesi içtiğini belirtmiştir. Bu çocukların % 60'ý 2 yaşındayken temizlik maddesi içmiş, % 60'ı erkektir, tamamı klorak içmiştir. Bir çocuk (% 20) bu nedenle hastaneye götürülmüştür. İlk müdahale olarak, annelerin yalnızca % 43'ü hemen doktora götürülmesi gerektiğini belirtmiş ve yalnızca %5,6'sı hastane ve doktordan bilgi almıştır. Annelerin % 50,5'i kısmen açık temizlik maddesi tercih etmekte, % 63.7'si ürünü kola şişesi ve pet şişelerde tutmaktadır. Açık temizlik maddesi alan annelerin % 60,3'ü ürünü etiketlememektedir. %44'ü kilitli kapağa önem vermemektedir. %18,7'i kilitli kapağı açamamıştır. %14'ü temizlik maddelerini kilitli mekanda saklamaktadır. İeterli geliri olan, yüksek öğrenimli ve meslek sahibi anneler her zaman kapalı temizlik maddesi tercih etmektedir. Sonuç: Araştırmada saptanan ciddi bilgi eksikliklerini giderebilmek amacıyla, özel eğitim programları hazırlanabilir. Ayrıca, gayrı-sıhhi müessese denetimlerine önem verilmesi ve üretim-satış-kullanım-saklama güvenliği zinciri oluşturulması, özellikle çocukların korunmasında yaşamsal öneme sahiptir.

The knowledge of mothers about the storage and risks of household products

Objective: Evaluation of mother’s knowledge about injuries related to the use of household products, who have children at the age of 1-4. Material and Method: This is a cross-sectional study which involves all of the mothers 128 women who have children at the age of 1-4 at one midwife region of the Kızılay Primary Health Center, from 19 April to 11 June 2004. The questionnaire with 37 titles was performed to mothers by face-to-face inquiry. The ability of mothers to open the household products with safety lids was tested and noted. After the questionnaire was performed, first aid information about any injury with household products was given to the mothers. Results: 4.7 % of the mothers stated that their children (5 children) had drunk any household product. 60 % of these children drunk the product during the age of two. 60 % were males and all of them had drunk "klorak" -a kind of acidic household product. One child (20%) had been transported to a health center. Only 43% of mothers declared that the appropriate first aid is to transport the child to a health center initially and only 5.6% of them received knowledge from a health center or a doctor. 50.5% of the mothers sometimes prefer the open-sold household products; 63.7% of them preserve the household products in drink or water bottles. 60.3% of the mothers who buy openly-sold household products don't label the products. 44% of the mothers don't give importance to safety lids. 18.7 % of them were not able to open those safety lids. 14% of them keep household products at locked places. The mothers who have adequate income, graduated from the university and have a career always prefer household products which are sold in safe covers. Discussion: Specific training programs can be prepared and performed to reduce the lack of knowledge uncovered during this research. In addition, giving enough importance to the controls of the firms that are related with the household product production and sales, and establishing a production-sale-usage-storage safety chain is very important fort the protection of children.

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