Prevention of domestic accidents in childhood: knowledge of caregivers at a health care facility.

Objective: To analyze caregivers' knowledge about prevention of domestic accidents in early childhood and its association with education level.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in a Primary Care Unit in Niterói with caregivers (convenience sample) of children under 6 years old. To classify the knowledge, we adopted the Positivity Index; to verify the association between the variable "schooling" and knowledge, the chi square test was used; statistically significant results: p < 0.