Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City
Zaghloul, A., El-masry, A., Emara, M., Eltobshy, A., Hosny, A., Marwan, M., Salah, A., Fathy, A., Yehya, R., Hussein, G. (2020). Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City. EKB Journal Management System, 2(2), 55-70. doi: 10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003
Abdulhamid Mohammed Zaghloul; Ahmed EL-araby El-masry; Moamen Emara; Ahd Ali Eltobshy; Ayman Maher Hosny; Menna Mohamed Marwan; Adham Mohamed Salah; Asmaa Mahmoud Fathy; Radwa Ahmed Yehya; Gehad Afify Hussein. "Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City". EKB Journal Management System, 2, 2, 2020, 55-70. doi: 10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003
Zaghloul, A., El-masry, A., Emara, M., Eltobshy, A., Hosny, A., Marwan, M., Salah, A., Fathy, A., Yehya, R., Hussein, G. (2020). 'Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City', EKB Journal Management System, 2(2), pp. 55-70. doi: 10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003
Zaghloul, A., El-masry, A., Emara, M., Eltobshy, A., Hosny, A., Marwan, M., Salah, A., Fathy, A., Yehya, R., Hussein, G. Prevalence, Patterns of Injuries and Associated Risk Factors Among Primary School pupils in Port Said City. EKB Journal Management System, 2020; 2(2): 55-70. doi: 10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003

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

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Article 14, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2020, Page 55-70  XML PDF (642.53 K)
Document Type: Research project
DOI: 10.21608/muj.2020.24984.1003
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Authors
Abdulhamid Mohammed Zaghloul; Ahmed EL-araby El-masry email ; Moamen Emara; Ahd Ali Eltobshy; Ayman Maher Hosny; Menna Mohamed Marwan; Adham Mohamed Salah; Asmaa Mahmoud Fathy; Radwa Ahmed Yehya; Gehad Afify Hussein
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said
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.
Keywords
Child injuries; Unintentional injuries; Pattern; Prevalence; Risk factors
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