Background: Accidents are common among children, although these accidents were
not adequately managed by community. And lack of environmental safety worldwide child
with retinoblastoma label to home accident. Aim: assessment of home accident among
children with retinoblastoma. Design: descriptive analytic design. Setting: at cancer children
hospital 57357and parent home. Sampling: A purposeful samples of 100 parents according
to specific criteria Tools: three tools were used for data collection. First tool: was an
interviewing Questionnaire, (a) Socio – demographic characteristics (b) Assessment of child
health need and problem (c) Assessment of parent knowledge about retinoblastoma (d)
Assessment parent knowledge and practice according to prevention of home accident.
Second tool: Home environment observation check list for assessing the children home
safety. Third tool: medical record analysis regarding diagnosis. Results: The most of parent
had unsatisfactory 'knowledge about prevention of home accident among their children with
retinoblastoma, the most of parent had inadequate practices related prevention of home
accident among their children with retinoblastoma, unsafe home environmental measure
around two third were unsafe home. Conclusion: the most of parent had unsatisfactory
knowledge and inadequate practice to prevent home accident among their children with
retinoblastoma, the most of parents had unsatisfactory knowledge about retinoblastoma. Also
there is unsafely measure to provide safe home environment for their children.
Recommendations: Implement health education regarding prevention of home accident
among child with retinoblastoma, instruction of prevention of home accident, First aid
training should be provided to parents as an essential need.