Assessment of Home Accident Among children with Retinoblastoma | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 11, Volume 11, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 155-169 PDF (323.85 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.94757 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sozan Saad Ahmed1; Hala Mohammed Mohammed2; Abdallah Elhusseiny Shelil3; Hossam Elzomor4 | ||
| 1Manger in children cancer hospital Egypt | ||
| 2Community Health Nursing, faculty of nursing ain shams university | ||
| 3Ophthalmology department, faculty of medicine Al Azhar University | ||
| 4Consultant pediatric Oncology children cancer hospital 57357 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Accidents are common among children, although these accidents were not adequately managed by community. And lack of environmental safety worldwide child with retinoblastoma label to home accident. Aim: assessment of home accident among children with retinoblastoma. Design: descriptive analytic design. Setting: at cancer children hospital 57357and parent home. Sampling: A purposeful samples of 100 parents according to specific criteria Tools: three tools were used for data collection. First tool: was an interviewing Questionnaire, (a) Socio – demographic characteristics (b) Assessment of child health need and problem (c) Assessment of parent knowledge about retinoblastoma (d) Assessment parent knowledge and practice according to prevention of home accident. Second tool: Home environment observation check list for assessing the children home safety. Third tool: medical record analysis regarding diagnosis. Results: The most of parent had unsatisfactory 'knowledge about prevention of home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, the most of parent had inadequate practices related prevention of home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, unsafe home environmental measure around two third were unsafe home. Conclusion: the most of parent had unsatisfactory knowledge and inadequate practice to prevent home accident among their children with retinoblastoma, the most of parents had unsatisfactory knowledge about retinoblastoma. Also there is unsafely measure to provide safe home environment for their children. Recommendations: Implement health education regarding prevention of home accident among child with retinoblastoma, instruction of prevention of home accident, First aid training should be provided to parents as an essential need. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| children with retinoblastoma; home accident | ||
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