Journal of health research in community

Introduction and purpose: Accidents are the first cause of death in children under five  years, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study is to determination the effect of Educational intervention on promotion of prevention behaviors of home accidents in mothers with children less than five year in Joibar city based on protection motivation theory (PMT) in 2015.
Methods: In this controlled interventional study 190 mothers with children less than five  year were participated (95 in case group and 95 incontrol group).The data collection toolwas researcher made questionnaire based on the structures of protection motivation theory.After done pre-test and the results obtained from it, appropriate educational intervention designed and was conducted only in case group. Then two months after the educational intervention,evaluation was done and data into SPSS 20 software and by using statistical tests T-test, Paired T test, chi _square, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis was analyzed.
Results: Statistically significant difference was found between mean scores of all structures of PMTin  the case and control groups after the educational intervention, so that in all cases in the case group was better than control group (P<0.05). There  was  a  significant  difference  between  the  mean scores of all structures of  PMT  in  case group in before and after the educational intervention (P<0.05), Whereas  no significant difference was seen between mean scores of all structures in control group in before and after the educational intervention (P>0.05).
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that PMT can be used as a framework in designing educational programs in order to promotion of prevention behaviors of home accidents in mothers with children less than five year.