Early Childhood, Home Injuries, Mothers ' Knowledge, Mothers' Attitude

May 1, 2026 updated by: Seham El-Sayed Saleh Hassan, Matrouh University

Safety Starts at Home: Nursing Led Education Toward Enhancing Mothers' Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Early Childhood Injuries.

Home-Related Injuries among Early Childhood: Rural Mothers' Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice regarding First Aid in Matrouh Governorate, Egypt

Keywords: Home injuries, Early childhood, Rural mothers, First aid, Matrouh Governorate.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Implement health education class to rural mothers about first aid measures to be taken for their injured children"

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

400

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Egypt
      • Marsá Maţrūḩ, Egypt
        • Matrouh university

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • The Mothers have normal preschool children less than 6 years regardless the child gender.
  • Educated (minimum accepted level of education is completion of primary education)
  • Interested & willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: health education class
Those mothers receive Early Childhood Home-Related Injuries education regarding First Aid in Matrouh
Behavioral: Implement health education

Implement health education class for the rural mothers in the for of one session will take about 30 minutes and it will include the following:

First aid (fracture, burn, bleeding, injuries and food poising). Critique malpractice for injuries management behavior at home.

About 10 mothers will be included in the session. Each session will take 30 minutes (in the family health center), to cover all theoretical contents.

The researcher will use different teaching methods as demonstration and discussion, learning aids as handout, video and pictures.
No Intervention: Control group
Those mothers not receive Early Childhood Home-Related Injuries education regarding First Aid in Matrouh

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Mothers' knowledge related First Aid Record
Time Frame: one session will take about 30 minutes

This tool will be developed by the researcher after reviewing relevant literature to collect the required data from the mothers regarding first aid at home.

It was developed by Bayomi and Mobarak (2013), translated to the Arabic language to assess mothers' knowledge about home accidents in children. It consisted of 6 questions. Each question was given a score of zero or one. Correct answer questions had a score of one and incorrect answers had a score of zero. Total score was classified as poor knowledge (<50%), moderate knowledge (50%-75%), and good knowledge (>75%).

  • Part (3): 25-item questions to assess the practice and attitude of mothers towards home-related injuries. Eight negative and 17 positive items were developed (Likert scale rate).
  • Part 4: Mother's Subjective Practices regarding to first aid at home scale. This part will be developed by the researcher based on related literature (Network, 2009), (Fatouh et al., 2020), (KUMAR, SIDHU, & ZABI, 2020).
one session will take about 30 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Tool II: Mothers' Attitude related First Aid Record
Time Frame: 30 minutes

This scale developed by Yalaki et al., )2010 (is a questionnaire aiming to identify attitudes of families towards home accidents. This tool was developed by (, translated to the Arabic language to measures mothers' attitude toward first aid. It consists of 25 questions to assess mothers' attitudes and practice toward first aid. Eight negative and 17 positive items were developed (Likert scale ratio). Responses: "always -frequently" and "sometimes-rarely-never" were measured together.

Positive answers question were scored as one point, while negative answers were scored as a zero point. The total score was categorized as negative attitude [zero to 12 (< 50%)], neutral attitude [13-18 (50% -75%)], and positive attitude [19-25 (> 75%)].
30 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Matrouh University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Seham Saleh, Lecturer, Matrouh university

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

June 25, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 30, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

December 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 12, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 2, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

August 9, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 7, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 1, 2026

Last Verified

May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB00013620(9/19/2025)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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