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Unintended Home Injuries in Under-5 Children in Sohag Governorate

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Community Medicine.

Abstract

Unintended injury was any injury that's not caused on reason or with a purpose to hurt. The home was believed to be the safest place for the child, however, home injuries can lead to permanent disability or even death making the child unable to live an active life. The aim of the current study was to assess the prevalence rate and epidemiology, to measure extent of morbidities and mortalities & to determine factors predisposing to unintended home injuries in under-5 children. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted among 610 parents of under-5 children in Sohag governorate, during the period from September 2022 to April 2023, using a semi-structured questionnaire to collect data about socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants, characteristics of the home injury & home environmental risk factors associated with the injury. The results illustrated that (60.33%) of the study participants reported home injuries among their children, the most reported age was the age group from 1 to 2 years by (28.0%), males reported more injuries (57.6%) as compared to females, the fifth or more child was the least reported to be injured (9.5%). The most frequent injuries were fall injuries (45.1%), followed by cut wound injuries (23.6%). The study concluded that there were many factors associated with unintended home injuries in under-5 children, so these injuries could be preventable. Therefore, Health programs should be launched to overcome the risks of unintended home injuries.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2024.255474.1434

Keywords

Home Injuries, under-5 children, unintended injuries

Authors

First Name

Magda

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Public health and Community medicine,Sohag University,Egypt

Email

magdamohameda@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

Allaa

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

Public health and community medicine department, Faculty of medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Email

alaagamal@med.sohag.edu.eg

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

eman

Last Name

mohamed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

public health and community medicine department, faculty of medicine, Sohag University, sohag, egypt.

Email

eman_mohamed@med.sohag.edu.eg

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Volume

28

Article Issue

2.

Related Issue

45736

Issue Date

2024-05-01

Receive Date

2023-12-16

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Page Start

12

Page End

21

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_339233.html

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339,233

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Original Article

Type Code

785

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

Publication Link

https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Unintended Home Injuries in Under-5 Children in Sohag Governorate

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Created At

24 Dec 2024