Effectiveness of "Be SAFE Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Booklet" Intervention for Parents and Guardians

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BACKGROUND: We aimed to assess the effectiveness of the health educational booklet intervention in improving parents/guardian's knowledge on prevention of child drowning and, the perception of drowning risk and water safety practice.

METHODS: A quasi-experimental study was conducted in year 2017 in Selangor, Malaysia among 719 parents/guardians of primary school children. The parent/guardians were randomly assigned as the intervention groups and were given a health educational Be-SAFE booklet on drowning prevention and water safety. The pretest was conducted before the intervention and posttest was done one month of intervention. The data collection tool was using a validated questionnaire on knowledge, attitude and practice for drowning prevention and water safety.

RESULTS: There were 719 respondents (response rate of 89.9%) participated at baseline and 53.7% at end line (after the intervention). Significant differences found in knowledge, attitudes and practice on drowning prevention and water safety for the intervention and control groups after the intervention (P<0.001). There was a significant difference in mean scores for knowledge and attitude before and after the intervention, whereas no significant findings noted for practices (P<0.001).

CONCLUSION: Be SAFE booklet contributed to the increase in parents/guardian's knowledge and attitudes towards drowning prevention and water safety to prevent the risk of child drowning.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Iranian journal of public health - 49(2020), 10 vom: 08. Okt., Seite 1921-1930

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Farizan, Noor Hamzani [VerfasserIn]
Sutan, Rosnah [VerfasserIn]
Mani, Kulanthayan Kc [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attitude
Drowning
Health education
Journal Article
Knowledge
Practice
Prevention

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 19.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.18502/ijph.v49i10.4695

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319110516