title: Mothers' awareness towards child injuries and injury prevention at home: an intervention study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Most injuries to young children happen in the home. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate if extended individual information to mothers' related to injury to children in the home and possible preventative actions has any effect on their awareness of the problem and if Sense of Coherence has an influence.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a quasi-experimental designed intervention study with a comparison group. Extended individual information with empowerment as the approach was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ninety-nine mothers of children under the age of 7 months participate. A questionnaire with sociodemographic data and questions regarding awareness towards prevention was used. Mothers who took part in the intervention significantly increased their awareness of the fact that child injuries take place at home when compared with the mothers in the comparison group, [OR 2.3, CI 1.3-4.3]. However, no significant improvement of awareness towards prevention was noted, neither any association to the mothers' SOC-scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study showed that the intervention had a positive effect on mothers' awareness towards the fact that child injuries are taking place at home, but it did not increase the mothers' awareness towards prevention of child injury.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Jan Waldenströmsgata 25, 205 06, Malmö, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carlsson
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Jan Waldenströmsgata 25, 205 06, Malmö, Sweden.|Faculty of Medicine, Department of Health Sciences Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna-Karin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Dykes
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Health Sciences Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Annkristin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jansson
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Jan Waldenströmsgata 25, 205 06, Malmö, Sweden. ann-cathrine.bramhagen@mah.se.|Skane University Hospitals, Malmö, Sweden. ann-cathrine.bramhagen@mah.se.
authors.forename: Ann-Cathrine
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Bramhagen
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Awareness; Intervention studies; Primary prevention; Sense of Coherence