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Mother's Awareness regarding Effect of Indoor Pollution on Child Health.

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Community health nursing

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Background: Indoor pollutants a significant impact on children's health. Mothers play a crucial role in ensuring the health and well-being of the children, and mothers' awareness of the effects of indoor pollution on child health is essential. Aim: Was to assess the mother's awareness regarding effect of indoor pollution on child health. Research design: A Descriptive research design was used to conduct in this study. Setting: This study was conducted at Maternal and Child Health Center in Benha City. Sample: Simple random sample was used, 392 mothers. Tools: Two tools were used Tool I: A structure interviewing questionnaire included two parts; Part I A): Socio demographic characteristics of mothers. B): Health problems of the children. Part II: Mother's knowledge about indoor pollution. Part III: Mothers reported practices regarding prevention of indoor pollution. Tool II: Environmental checklist design to assess home environmental condition of mothers regarding prevention of indoor pollution. Results: 65.3% of studied mothers were age range from 20 to less than 30 years old, 44.9% of studied children were suffered from redness of eye, 42.9% of studied children suffered from sensitivity on the chest, 48.3% of studied mothers had poor knowledge level about indoor pollution and 49.0% of studied mothers had unsatisfactory reported practices. Conclusion: there were statistically relation between the studied mothers total knowledge score and total reported score.  Recommendations: Health educational program about information and proper practices regarding indoor pollution should be developed and implemented for mothers.

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10.21608/jnsbu.2024.366519

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Mothers awareness, Child health, and Indoor pollution

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Heba

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Shaban Mohamed

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Teacher at the Technical Secondary School of Nursing in Sennuras, Egypt

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Nawal

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Mahmoud Soliman

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Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

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Samah

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Said Sabry

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Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Benha University

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Nashwa

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Samir Abd El-Aziz

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Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Benha University.

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5

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2

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48662

Issue Date

2024-07-01

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2024-07-11

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2024-07-01

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668

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682

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2682-3934

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2735-5802

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Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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Mother's Awareness regarding Effect of Indoor Pollution on Child Health.

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28 Dec 2024