KNOWLEDGE OF MOTHERS ABOUT THE USE OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS ON DISCHARGE FROM MATERNITY (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Deaths, hospitalizations and sequelae from traffic accidents involving children are worrying in the global and Brazilian health scenario. Traffic education practices are strategies for the prevention and health promotion of the population. The objective was to verify the knowledge of mothers about the safe transport of newborns after discharge from the maternity hospital. This was an exploratory, quantitative research carried out through a questionnaire applied to the parent or guardian of the child at discharge from the maternity hospital, totaling 30 Interviewed. The results showed the lack of Health Education and Traffic Education that must be carried out by the health teams, as only two (6.7%) Interviewed reported having received some information during the newborn's discharge from the maternity hospital, the rest, 28 (93.3%) Interviewed did not receive any information on how to correctly transport the baby when leaving the maternity ward. This way, it is intuited that mothers must receive guidance on care in relation to the transport of the child from prenatal care to the consultations held after birth, it is observed that the main source of information that the interviewee received about the use of of Child Safety Seats was through conversations with friends, with ten (27.1%) responses, and from other sources, with 13 (35.1%) responses, none of the interviewees received information from the nurse and only three (8, 1%) received from the pediatrician. It is recommended that educational practices are present in the daily lives of professionals, they can be carried out in the hospital environment, in waiting rooms of basic health units, private clinics, educational centers, and can be individual or collective.