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Title: A different aspect of corrosive ingestion in children: Socio-demographic characteristics and effect of family functioning
Authors: Sarıoğlu-Büke, Akile.
Çördük, Nergül.
Atesçi, Figen.
Karabul, Murat.
Koltuksuz, Uğur.
Keywords: Attitude
Behavior
Children
Corrosive ingestion
Family functioning
domestic chemical
adult
article
child parent relation
controlled study
corrosive ingestion
demography
education
family assessment
family functioning
father
female
home accident
human
ingestion
male
maternal attitude
maternal behavior
parental attitude
priority journal
questionnaire
sex ratio
social status
working mother
Adult
Burns, Chemical
Case-Control Studies
Caustics
Child, Preschool
Educational Status
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Mothers
Questionnaires
Social Class
Turkey
Abstract: Objective: Corrosive ingestion is thoroughly investigated in terms of its complications and treatment modalities but to date family functioning, behavior, attitude and knowledge of mothers of children who ingested corrosives has not been investigated and socio-demographic data has rarely been mentioned. Therefore a study was planned to investigate the socio-demographic data, family functioning, knowledge, behavior and attitude of mothers of children who ingested corrosive materials. Methods: The mothers of 50 children who ingested corrosive materials and 60 controls were asked to answer a questionnaire which included socio-demographic data and questions about their attitude, behavior and knowledge of corrosive ingestion. The mothers were also asked to reply family assessment device (FAD) and parental attitude research instrument (PARI). Results: The average ages of the children were 5.31 ± 2.32 in the corrosive group with an M:F ratio of 1:1. The level of education of both mothers (p = 0.000) and fathers (p = 0.000) in the corrosive group were lower than that of the controls. There was no difference between the two groups in terms of number of working mothers (p = 0.085). In the corrosive group the families used to have three or more children (42%) and the socioeconomic status of this group was lower than the controls (p = 0.001). In the corrosive group these substances were purchased unlabeled (64%) and kept mainly in coke bottles. The affective involvement dimension of the FAD and the attitude of over-parenting and democratic attitude dimensions of the PARI tests were significantly different in the corrosive group among mothers from lower educational level whereas no difference was detected among mothers from higher educational level in this regard. Conclusion: It was found that both level of education of the parents and socioeconomic factors played important role in shaping the habits that might lead to corrosive ingestion in children. For the prevention of corrosive ingestion broad based strategies including education are required. © 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/4506
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2006.06.005
ISSN: 0165-5876
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