ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCY FIRST AID FOR SOUTH KOREAN INFANT AND CHILDREN

This study attempted to recognize the severity of safety accidents at home, the highest frequencies among children's accidents, to prevent the safety accidents and to figure out the training effects of educating parents on quick emergency first aid, all of which are to be used as empirically basic data for education program development for parents'safety training at home. The study of (1) on the experience of emergency first aid training and safety accidents on Korean mothers revealed that those encountered accidents within the recent one year were 56.0% which was slightly higher than those without the experiences with the ratio of 44.0%. Parents experience in training on safety accidents prevention and first aid accounted for 18.8% which was more than those without relevant training experience with the ratio of 81.2%, which reflected the necessities of training. Based on the conclusions, future training should not end up with conveying simple safety knowledges or medically confined issues but establish comprehensive health model in which rights of our children are respected and their welfare are to be improved as well..