Knowledge of Early Childhood‘s Mothers Regarding Toilet Training at Primary Health Care Centers in Alrusafa District in Baghdad City

Abstract

Toilet training refers to the acquisition of skills necessary for controlling of both the bowel and bladder for the right use of toilet by child at appropriate age and time. A descriptive study (cross-sectional design)was used; To aseess the Knowledge of early childhood's mothers Regarding Toilet Training and to find out the relationship between between the knowledge of early childhood's mothers' demographic variables such as (age, educational level, occupational status et al ….) and their child's demographic variables (age, gender, number of children et al….).Non probability (convenience sample) of ( 225) early childhood's mothers (have children's age between 1-5 years).The study concludes that the early childhood's mothers with moderate border to low level of knowledge regarding toilet training. No significant association among parent's socio-demographical characteristics andchild'ssocio-demographical characteristics with the knowledge, except between "Starting toilet training or not" and knowledge, also significantassociation found between mother's source of information with the knowledge. The study recommends that extensive health educational programme should be applied to increase the early childhood's mother knowledge regarding toilet training.