Maternal Beliefs and Socioeconomic Correlated Factors on Child Mortality from Drowning in Caspian Sea Coastline

Objective: to investigate maternal beliefs, practices about causes and determinant factors on drowning andmaternal socioeconomic correlated factors on child mortality from drowning.methods: from march 2005 to march 2009, in a register-based cohort study and household survey, individualrecords utilizing drowning registry data of northern iran were enrolled. mothers (n=276) who respondedto multiple questions in a household survey were included. the patterns, interrelationships and effects ofsocioeconomic correlated factors on child mortality were analyzed.results: a significant difference in relation to mother's educational level and age and family income distributionwas noticed. participants in household survey also reported that establishment of a multi-sectorial collaboration,integration of public health messages into local television, additional rescue stations and lifeguard, hazardenvironment fencing, increasing adult supervision, more support on increasing swimming ability among thechildren were all effective on reducing of drowning death.conclusion: due to the high rate of drowning in children and lack of attention among olders, a greater emphasisshould be placed on educating mothers to assist a better supervision on their children.