Rahman Aminur, Shafinaz Shumona, Linnan Michael, Rahman Fazlur
Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Aust J Rural Health. 2008 Jun;16(3):176-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2008.00969.x.
To gain an in-depth understanding of people's perception of causes and their concepts of prevention of childhood drowning in rural Bangladesh.
A qualitative study and focus group discussion (FGD) was adopted.
A rural community in Bangladesh.
FGDs were conducted with mothers of children aged under 5 years, adolescent male and female students, fathers and local leaders. One FGD was conducted for each group. Out of 53 participants 25 were women.
The respondents considered that children of 5-10 years are at risk of drowning. Ponds, ditches and canals were frequently mentioned locations of drowning. Most of the drownings were reported to occur around noon. For prevention of childhood drowning the participants suggested that the children should be constantly supervised, unwanted ditches should be filled in, ponds should be fenced and drowning prevention awareness in the community be increased by community leaders. They suggested that government should organise campaigns for preventing childhood drowning, promoting swimming instruction activities for children and motivating communities to fence ponds.
People interviewed in general know the causes of childhood drowning and its preventive measures, but they do not put their knowledge into preventative actions as they fail to recognise this as a major child survival issue and they are never reached with definite actions points to change the behaviours.
深入了解孟加拉国农村地区人们对儿童溺水原因的认知以及预防溺水的观念。
采用定性研究和焦点小组讨论（FGD）。
孟加拉国的一个农村社区。
与5岁以下儿童的母亲、青少年男女学生、父亲和当地领导人进行了焦点小组讨论。每个群体进行了一次焦点小组讨论。53名参与者中有25名女性。
受访者认为5至10岁的儿童有溺水风险。池塘、沟渠和运河是经常被提及的溺水地点。据报道，大多数溺水事件发生在中午左右。为预防儿童溺水，参与者建议应持续监督儿童，填平无用的沟渠，给池塘装上围栏，并由社区领导人提高社区的溺水预防意识。他们建议政府应组织预防儿童溺水的活动，推广儿童游泳教学活动，并激励社区给池塘装围栏。
接受采访的人们总体上知道儿童溺水的原因及其预防措施，但他们没有将这些知识转化为预防行动，因为他们没有认识到这是一个影响儿童生存的重大问题，而且从未得到明确改变行为的行动要点。
