UNITERMS: Accidents home. Children. Nursing. Accidents prevention. INTRODUÇÃOCulturalmente. os acidentes são percebidos como situações inevitáveis, não desejadas pelas pessoas e até acreditamos que nunca acontecerão conosco. Porém, quando enfrentamos um acidente e refletimos como aconteceu, podemos descobrir que poderia ter sido evitado.A medida que se intensificam os métodos preventivos contra as doenças infecciosas mediante o progresso das medidas de higiene e elevação do nível de vida dos povos, o mundo observa um aumento importante da morbidade e mortalidade envolvendo crianças em acidentes (LEVENE, 1992;

This study aims at knowing the behaviour of the family facing the home accidents among children, identifying the risk factors in the home environment, in the family's perception and analysing the socioeconomic-cultural context contributing to the occurrence of children's home accident. The work was made in a family that had experienced a case of poisoning of a 4 year-old child. Participant observation and the semi-structured interview were used as methodology. The results evidenced that the family constantly lives among children's home accidents and the socioeconomic-cultural context has a strong influence in the amount and quality of these cases.

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The presence of veterinary products in the houses without any minimum security procedures has led to a poisoning case for a one-year old child who developed a serious systemic reaction. This child was interned at a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at a public hospital in Fortaleza, Ceara. This study aims at identifying the family reaction facing a poisoning of a child and analyzing these reactions, interpreting its social cultural context. It has been developed as an ethnographic study case, consisting of the exploration, decision and discovery phases. It has been observed through the results that the family recognizes the existence of risk factors in home environment but does not adopt any coherent preventive methods with this experience. We do believe that these occurrences reduction demand transforming educative actions which may lead the family to be conscious towards the problematic that concerns poisoning for children, occurred under their responsibility.