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Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Public health, social and preventive medicine.

Abstract

Background: Child health promotion is a crucial challenge in the current decade especially in developing countries like Egypt, and this study is considered as one step from thousands of steps needed to achieve this aim.
Objective: To measure the prevalence of injuries, determine the patterns of injuries, and assess the associated risk factors of injuries among primary school children in Port-Said City.
Methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, a non- proportionate stratified random sampling was used in this project . We collected data on 25th of March 2019 from 2128 primary school pupils from 11 schools . The pupils' age ranged from 7 to 13 years in all six grades in port-Said, Egypt. SPSS statistics was used to analyze and interpret the data collected .
Results: After doing analysis, it was found out that only 708 pupils (33.27%) didn't suffer from injury before, while 1420 pupils (66.73%) suffered from injury with boys (54.51%) having a higher rate than girls (45.49 %). The most common injury for both males and females is falling while the least percentage was dog bite . Most injuries occurred at home (38.88%) surprisingly, while injuries in schools come in the 3rd place by 14.15% .
Conclusion : Egypt and the other countries have to pay attention to achieve the aim of child health promotion.

DOI

10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003

Keywords

Child injuries, Unintentional injuries, pattern, prevalence, risk factors

Authors

First Name

Abdulhamid

Last Name

Zaghloul

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

abd.elhamid.zaghloul@gmail.com

City

Port-said

Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

El-masry

MiddleName

EL-araby

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

ahmedelmasryae489522@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Moamen

Last Name

Emara

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

moamenemara583@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahd

Last Name

Eltobshy

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

ahdeltobshy2020@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Hosny

MiddleName

Maher

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

aymoon281200@gmail.com

City

Portsaid

Orcid

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First Name

Menna

Last Name

Marwan

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

mennamarwan22@gmail.com

City

Portsaid

Orcid

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First Name

Adham

Last Name

Salah

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

adham.mohamed87@outlook.com

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Fathy

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

a.mahmoud253@outlook.com

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

Radwa

Last Name

Yehya

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

radwaahmedyehya@outlook.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Gehad

Last Name

Hussein

MiddleName

Afify

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said

Email

g.a.alahmar@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

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Volume

2

Article Issue

2

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14013

Issue Date

2020-07-01

Receive Date

2020-03-02

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

55

Page End

70

Online ISSN

2682-2741

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MUJ_Volume 2_Issue 2_Pages 55-70.pdf

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Medicine Updates

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22 Jan 2023