Özet:

The study was planned and carried out in order to examine the electrical appliances accidents encountered by the families at home, and to determine the taking measures in order to be protected from these accidents. The study was carried out on a total of 600 person (parents) chosen form the families living in the region which is connected to Mamak Dr. Halil Ülgen Health Center by means of random sampling. The data of the study were gathered as a result of applying the questionnaire form prepared by the researchers between 9 and 21 June 2010 with face to face interview technique. It was detected that in the home of 39 people (6.5%) participating in the study, electrical appliances accidents occurred. 64.3% of 561 people not having electrical appliances accidents in their homes are taking measures in order not to have electrical appliances accidents, and the people stating that they “pay attention to the use of the appliances” come first among the people taking measures. 97.5% of the people having an accident is female, while 2.5% is male. It was detected that more than half of the people having electrical appliances accidents (% 68.3) had the accidents in the kitchen. The mostly incurred parts in the bodies of the people after the accident are hand and arm (90.3%). It was found out that the accidents occurred resulted at the highest ratio (19.5%) from the kettles. It was seen that burn is at the highest ratio (61.0%) among the accidents, electric shock took the second place among the electrical appliances accidents (12.2%). When the reasons or the accidents resulting from the electrical appliances, carelessness was stated at the first place with a ratio of 77.5%. Most of the electrical appliances accidents prevented with some caution.

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