Aim; This research was carried out with the aim of evaluating knowledge and applications about hand hygiene of the children and the mothers themselves.
Material Method;This research, retrospective and dectriptive, was carried out between the dates March 2009 and June 2009. The town of Palandöken was chosen randomly from three towns of Erzurum City Centre. Of the eight family health centre depending on this town, a family health centre was chose randomly by means of sampling. 4000 women in the 15 and 49 years of age group formed the study context. In the circumstance in which the context is known, the sampling was determined as 350 by means of sampling method. The women, married and with children, accepting to participate in the research or coming to family health centre for any reasons were included in the research. The data of the research were collected by a questionnaire form prepared by the researchers. The data of the research were evaluated by making percentage distributions in computer.
Results; It was found out that 44.9 % of the women was in 26-35 age group, and that 52.6 % of the women was primary school graduate, and that 32.3 % of the women had to children.
It was also found out that 83.7 % of the mothers washed their hands ten or more times, and that 38.6 % of the mothers washed their hands before coming into toilets, and that 100 % of the mothers washed their hands after going out the toilets, and that 75.7 % of the mothers dried their hands by using clot towels.
When, during the child care, knowledge and applications about hand hygiene of the mothers were examined, ıt was observed that 59.1 % of the mothers washed their hands before giving breast feding, and that 39.4 % of the mothers know that they should wash their hands before changing their babies under. After changing baby diaper, the rate of mothers expressing that they should wash their hands was 93.3 %. 74.9 % of the mothers stated that the hands should be washed when the baby vomited or after baby cleaning finished.
Conclusion; It was found out that the mothers did not have sufficient knowledge and applications about hand hygiene in the care themselves and their children.
Key words: Mother, child, care, hand hygiene Article Language: Turkish English
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