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Unintentional Poisoning among Preschool Children in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2014-2016): A Retrospective Cohort Study

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Abstract

Background: Acute unintentional home intoxication in preschool-age children is a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality. In the United States, 2012, around half of the youngsters younger than 6 years were accounted for as a poison occasion.
Aim of the work: To estimate family and poison injury characters of preschool children who had unintentional home poisoning at poisoning department center under public health administration in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia, during the duration between 2014-2016 and to recognize the relationship between unintentional poison' risk factors (personal, family character and injury factors) and poison types.
Methodology: This retrospective cohort study was proceeded in the Jeddah poison center. All preschool children (0-5) years involved were reported as unintentional household harm (poisoning) cases at the chosen center. The questionnaire had developed and validated "from three public health experts," which was filed from center files and completed by a researcher telephone call to child-parent.
Results: 41.5% of the affected children were occupied the (>12-24 months) age cluster. In addition, 62.6% of the participants were males, and most of the kids [44.4%] had a low social class.
Conclusion: Inadvertent poisoning was commonly associated with age cluster (1-2 years), male gender, families with greater than three children, mother higher education, medicine poisoning of powder form, oral route, and at the morning time.

DOI

10.21608/ijma.2020.42737.1168

Keywords

Unintentional poison, preschool children, poison types, Retrospective, cohort study

Authors

First Name

Iman Mohamed Wahby

Last Name

Salem

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Affiliation

Community Medicine Department, King Abdulaziz University [Rabigh], Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Email

imanwahby2017@gmail.com

City

Jeddah

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https://orcid.org/00

First Name

Ahlam

Last Name

Natto

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Public Health Specialist, East Jeddah Hospital; Community Medicine Consultant, Joint Program of Family and Community Medicine, Jeddah, KSA

Email

phc.moh@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

Mohmad Mabrouk

Last Name

Sweif

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Medical student at Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt

Email

mswief@yahoo.com

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-

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3

Article Issue

1

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21557

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2020-09-13

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

953

Page End

961

Print ISSN

2636-4174

Online ISSN

2682-3780

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IJMA_Volume 3_Issue 1_Pages 953-961.pdf

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https://ijma.journals.ekb.eg/article_119898.html

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International Journal of Medical Arts

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Unintentional Poisoning among Preschool Children in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2014-2016): A Retrospective Cohort Study

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22 Jan 2023