Table 5. Participants’ opinions and response practices to various burn situations.
Research question | Categories | Frequency | Percentage |
Water temperatures to be applied on burn | Cold | 661 | 79.3% |
Warm | 126 | 15.1% | |
Hot | 21 | 2.6% | |
I will not apply water | 25 | 3% | |
Duration of applying water to a burn | Less than 5 minutes | 118 | 14.2% |
Between 5 and 10 minutes | 180 | 21.6% | |
Between 10 and 15 minutes | 265 | 31.8% | |
More than 15 minutes | 201 | 24.1% | |
I don’t know | 60 | 7.2% | |
I will not apply water | 9 | 1.1% | |
Home remedies used on burn | Honey | 515 | 61.9% |
Toothpaste | 251 | 30.1% | |
Ice cold compress | 34 | 4.1% | |
Tomato paste | 12 | 1.5% | |
White flour | 9 | 1.1% | |
Milk or yogurt | 11 | 1.3% | |
I have never used natural remedies | - | - |