Health Needs among Preschool Children in Rural Areas | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 56, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 758-772 PDF (489.67 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.245407 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Omaima Mohamad Esmat; Wafa Kh.Ibrahim; Rasha Shehata Mohamed Ramadan | ||
| Nursing Community Department- Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University-Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of this study was to: Assess health needs among preschool children in rural areas. Setting: Governmental Nursery School in Gharbiya Govemorate Tanta Basyoun center, which about 38 Governmental Nursery School. Sample: A multi stage sampling will be used in this study to get study participants and the final sample size was (200) participant. Tools: First tool, Structured interviewing questionnaire by the investigator to assess socio- demographic data, current health status for preschool child, mother’s knowledge regarding health needs &problems of their preschool child, mother's practices. Second tool, Observational checklist to assess growth and development through Anthropometric measurements. Results: The mean age of the studied children was 4.2±0.81, more than half of them were males. More than half of mothers were satisfactory in total knowledge. More than half of preschool children didn't have health problems. More than half of mother's reported practice was always in physical health needs, psychological, social, and cognitive and security needs and the majority of studied children were normal in their total growth and development. Conclusion: There was a highly statistically significant relation between socio-demographic characteristics and mother's knowledge regarding health needs& problems among their preschool children. Also, there was highly statistically significant relation between total practice with age of mother, Mother education level and mother's job. There was positive statistically significant correlation deference between total knowledge and Total practice, negative statistically significant correlation deference between total knowledge and Total health problems and negative statistically significant correlation between Total practice and Total health problems. Recommendations: Counseling programs for mothers to improve their knowledge and practice toward achievement of health needs for their preschool children, Provide proper health education for mothers to improve their practices toward resolving any problem may face their preschool children. Particular effort should therefore be made to ensure this knowledge is rightly acquired. Other means of knowledge acquisition for mothers who do not have a formal education or cannot complete education above primary school should be employed. More importantly, programs should identify which child care practices should be encouraged to enhance maternal and child nutrition and health; promoting such could mitigate the negative association of mother’s lack of education with children’s health. Finally, adult education through behavioral change communications would be an effective means for reaching out to poor and less educated Nigerian women. -Follow up frequently to early detection of health problems and unachieved health needs of preschool children in all nursery school all over the government. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Health Needs; Preschool Children; Rural Areas | ||
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