Enhancing Mothers’ Awareness about Home Accidents and First Aids for Children during Covid-19 Lockdown: A social media Based Nursing Intervention

Abd Elhady Badawy, Shimaa; Ahmed Hassan, Reda; G. El-Bready, Hanan; Abdel Malek Hussein, Afaf

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2021.203220

Enhancing Mothers’ Awareness about Home Accidents and First Aids for Children during Covid-19 Lockdown: A social media Based Nursing Intervention

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

² Family & Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

10.21608/ejhc.2021.203220

Abstract

Back ground: Childhood injury is a significant public health problem in terms of
morbidity, mortality and lifelong disability. Aim: to evaluate the effect of social media-
based nursing intervention on enhancing mothers’ awareness of home accidents and first aids
for children during COVID-19 lockdown. Design: A quasi-experimental design (pre-post)
test used and conducted using an online self-administered questionnaire through using
Google Form to mothers in Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample of
120 mothers obtained from social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp groups. Tools: A
structured questionnaire for mothers; it includes four parts: Mothers' demographic data,
mothers' general knowledge of home accidents predisposing factors and prevention methods,
mothers' reported practice & attitude regarding home accidents first aids measures and
social media based nursing intervention characteristics. Results: The study findings revealed
that mothers had a higher mean score of knowledge and practical knowledge post
intervention compared to pre-intervention for poisoning, wound/fracture, burn, and choking.
There was positive correlation between mothers’ total knowledge scores and total practical
knowledge scores at the 0.01 level of significance about home accidents prevention and first
aid measures post intervention. Conclusion: the study concluded that implementation of
social media-based nursing intervention achieved significant improvements in the mothers’
knowledge, practices, and attitude regarding home accidents prevention and first aid
measures during covid-19 lockdown. Recommendations: A social media-based intervention
should be carefully planned and implemented as a new teaching method for proving health
issues to mothers.

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