Home injury prevention attitude and performance: a community-based study in a designated safe community

Background: unintentional injuries in the home are one of the threats to childhood quality of lifewhich is considered as a social determinant of health. regarding mother's leading role in takingcare of the children in iranian families, the present study was conducted to investigate mothers'home-injury prevention attitude and performance and its contributing factors in sahand safecommunity, east-azerbaijan, iran.methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2017. sampling was done using randomsampling method among all mothers having at least one u-5 child and attended the healthcenters to receive childcare services. a valid attitude questionnaire and safety performancechecklist were used for data collection. data were analyzed by spss-24, using descriptive(frequency, mean, etc.) and inferential statistics (chi-square, kruskal-wallis).results: the mean age of mothers was 30.58 (±5.01). about 65% of the mothers had primary orsecondary school education. the mean score of mothers' attitude was 72.12(±6.79). more than58% of the mothers had an appropriate level of attitude. the mothers' injury preventionperformance mean score was 66.59 (±12.85). family’s socioeconomic status, mother's age,educational level, and job, father's job, age, and gender of the child were the contributing factors(p less than 0.05).conclusions: most of the mothers have an appropriate level of home-injury prevention attitudebut a low level of performance. strengthening primary health care system in safe communitieswould have a leading role in child safety promotion through increasing the mother's knowledge,attitude and performance level.