Project for preventing home accidents in children of 0-6 age group evaluation of training of trainers

The study was conducted under the context of “Project for Preventing Home Accidents in Children of 0-6 Age Group” executed by Denizli Health Directorship under the coordination of Denizli Governorship. The project is based on the training of mothers with children of 0-6 age group by trainers. For this purpose, 223 people working in National Education Directorship, Social Services Directorship and Health Directorship in Denizli city center were trained to be trainers.

In the study, designed to be semi-experimental, participants were trained one day for Preventing Home Accidents and First Aid for Home Accidents. These trainings were given in September 19 groups, and in two stages: theoretical and practical. Before and after the theoretical trainings, a 10 item pretest and a final test prepared by Project Consultancy Committee and trainers were practiced to evaluate the effectiveness of the trainings. Also a home environment was prepared including dangers that may cause home accidents and a practical training was given to the participants to increase the awareness of participant against these dangers. After this training, application guide was used to assess the effectiveness of the training. Presentations, posters and brochures were given to the participants as education material at the end of the training.

The training grades of trainers within the scope of the home accident preventing project is the pretest mean score was 60.04 and the posttest mean score was 89.85 and the difference between the two means was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). The application grade averages of the trainers are 92.02.

Training related with this subject should be given to all community, (especially mothers) in order to decrease the number of children deaths and injuries related with home accidents and to create safe home environments.