Determinations of the First Aid-Related Knowledge Levels of the Mothers Having Children at the Age of 0-6 and Who Live in The Mugla Number Two Health Clinic District

AIM: The study was planned to determinate the first-aid-related knowledge levels of the mothers with a child aged 0-6. METHOD: The universe of the study consist of 772 mothers having a child aged 0-6 and living in Mugla II Number Health Clinic district. Study was carried out on 561 mothers who accepted. The questionnaire which applied used consist of 64 questions in sum, 8 of which are to solicit personal information and 54 to solicit first-aid-related knowledge level. RESULTS: In the study, first aid related knowledge situation of mothers having a child aged 0-6 was found 28.74 9.44 out of 54 points and was ascertained that they known first-aid. Statistically significant difference was found between their age groups, their levels of education, their working situations, their situations about obtaining information, their experiments of cases requiring first-aid and knowledge points (p<0.05). CONLUSION: The first-aid topics best know by the mothers were found to be; burn, sun stroke and frost, and the least know were animal savages and insect bites. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2010; 9(3): 217-224]