title: Precautions taken by mothers to prevent burn and scald injuries to young children at home: an intervention study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent individual-based extended information given to mothers from city parts of low education can improve precautions taken by them to prevent burn and scald injuries involving young children in the home and further to compare the results with a group of mothers who had not received extended information.
  
  
  METHODS
  This intervention study, with a comparison group, has a quasi-experimental design. Individual-based information, with an empowerment approach, was given to a group of mothers living in two separate areas of a city in southern Sweden with a low level of education. In total, 99 mothers of children under the age of 7 months participated. The mothers were selected through the local child healthcare authorities. Observations were made and bivariate analyses were established.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that the intervention had a significant impact on improving the precautions the participating mothers introduced to protect their children against burn and scald injuries in the home and further, in relation to a comparison group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Through empowerment, workshops, and home visits aimed to increase their consciousness and knowledge, the participating mothers' precautions taken against child injuries in the home improved. It is of great importance that a framework for considering the problem of burn and scald injuries to children is presented from a preventive perspective which, in combination with evidence-based interventions, may enable the creation of injury prevention programmes for implementation by the community health care.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Nursing, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden. anna.carlsson@mah.se
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carlsson
authors.forename: Ann-Cathrine
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Bramhagen
authors.forename: Annkristin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jansson
authors.forename: Anna-Karin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Dykes
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002056:Burns / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D004522:Educational Status; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden