Children at Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of Mothers' Awareness and Practices Regarding Chemical Product Labels at Home

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI:10.1111/jep.70163

Bahise Aydın, Nazan Çakırer Çalbayram

{"title":"Children at Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of Mothers' Awareness and Practices Regarding Chemical Product Labels at Home","authors":"Bahise Aydın, Nazan Çakırer Çalbayram","doi":"10.1111/jep.70163","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Background</h3>\n \n <p>Children's exposure to chemical products at home poses significant health risks, making mothers' awareness and label-reading practices crucial for ensuring household safety.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Objective</h3>\n \n <p>This study aimed to determine the frequency of mothers reading labels on chemical products and their knowledge of label symbols.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Methods</h3>\n \n <p>This descriptive cross-sectional study included 352 mothers whose children were between the ages of 6–18 years. Data were collected through an online survey using the Sociodemographic and Descriptive Characteristics Data Form and the Chemical Label Symbols Information Questionnaire.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Results</h3>\n \n <p>It was found that 65.6% of the mothers were interested in chemical product labels, 38.9% always read the information on the label, and 70.5% believed that the information on the label was useful. The label symbol that mothers knew the most was the symbol for airing the room after use (94.9%) and the least was the symbol for acute poisoning (50.6%). It was found that the frequency of label reading increased as the number of family members and the number of children decreased (<i>p</i> < 0.05).</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Conclusion</h3>\n \n <p>It was determined that although mothers were highly aware of the symbols on chemical product labels, the frequency of label reading was insufficient. Children's health is at risk due to the excessive use of chemical products at home.</p>\n </section>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":15997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of evaluation in clinical practice","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jep.70163","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of evaluation in clinical practice","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jep.70163","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background

Children's exposure to chemical products at home poses significant health risks, making mothers' awareness and label-reading practices crucial for ensuring household safety.

Objective

This study aimed to determine the frequency of mothers reading labels on chemical products and their knowledge of label symbols.

Methods

This descriptive cross-sectional study included 352 mothers whose children were between the ages of 6–18 years. Data were collected through an online survey using the Sociodemographic and Descriptive Characteristics Data Form and the Chemical Label Symbols Information Questionnaire.

Results

It was found that 65.6% of the mothers were interested in chemical product labels, 38.9% always read the information on the label, and 70.5% believed that the information on the label was useful. The label symbol that mothers knew the most was the symbol for airing the room after use (94.9%) and the least was the symbol for acute poisoning (50.6%). It was found that the frequency of label reading increased as the number of family members and the number of children decreased (p < 0.05).

Conclusion

It was determined that although mothers were highly aware of the symbols on chemical product labels, the frequency of label reading was insufficient. Children's health is at risk due to the excessive use of chemical products at home.

查看原文本刊更多论文

处于危险中的儿童：母亲在家中对化学产品标签的意识和实践的横断面研究

儿童在家中接触化学产品会造成重大的健康风险，因此母亲的意识和阅读标签的做法对于确保家庭安全至关重要。目的本研究旨在了解母亲阅读化学产品标签的频率及其对标签符号的认知。方法对352名6-18岁儿童的母亲进行描述性横断面研究。数据通过使用社会人口学和描述性特征数据表和化学标签符号信息问卷的在线调查收集。结果65.6%的妈妈对化学产品标签感兴趣，38.9%的妈妈会阅读标签上的信息，70.5%的妈妈认为标签上的信息是有用的。母亲对标识符号了解最多的是使用后通风标识（94.9%），对急性中毒标识了解最少（50.6%）。结果发现，标签阅读频率随家庭成员数量和子女数量的减少而增加（p < 0.05）。结论母亲对化学产品标签符号的认知度较高，但阅读频率不足。由于在家中过度使用化学产品，儿童的健康受到威胁。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.