Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum

A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among the children aged 16years and below at Tejgaon slum in Dhaka city during January’2015 to December’2015. Aiming to ascertain the factors associated with child injuries. Data were collected using random sampling technique. The total number of the...

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Main Author: Noor Riffat Ara
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Language:English
Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2017-06-01
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Online Access:http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.28-6-2017.152749
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description A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among the children aged 16years and below at Tejgaon slum in Dhaka city during January’2015 to December’2015. Aiming to ascertain the factors associated with child injuries. Data were collected using random sampling technique. The total number of the injured children under study were 234. Nearly halves of participants were between 1-4 years and 13-16 years of age and 33% were in 5-8 years of age. The mean age was 8.39 ± 4.64 years and Male – female ratio was 1:1.5. The highest injury rate was observed between 5-8 years in male (53.8%) and the lowest in 9-12 years (20%) which did not vary with respect to sex. And 75% injured children, 71% mothers and 90% fathers were illiterate and 46% mothers were housewife. Female children were more prone to injury,53%. Halves of them occurred at their own house. More than 50% were with low-income within 2000TK-3000TK. Adequate intervention is needed for prevention of injury to children.
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spelling doaj.art-4cb98c00c72c494aa9e2d4d3644427472022-12-21T19:05:31ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems2032-94072017-06-014131410.4108/eai.28-6-2017.152749Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban SlumNoor Riffat Ara0anesthesiologist, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; drriffat91@gmail.comA cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among the children aged 16years and below at Tejgaon slum in Dhaka city during January’2015 to December’2015. Aiming to ascertain the factors associated with child injuries. Data were collected using random sampling technique. The total number of the injured children under study were 234. Nearly halves of participants were between 1-4 years and 13-16 years of age and 33% were in 5-8 years of age. The mean age was 8.39 ± 4.64 years and Male – female ratio was 1:1.5. The highest injury rate was observed between 5-8 years in male (53.8%) and the lowest in 9-12 years (20%) which did not vary with respect to sex. And 75% injured children, 71% mothers and 90% fathers were illiterate and 46% mothers were housewife. Female children were more prone to injury,53%. Halves of them occurred at their own house. More than 50% were with low-income within 2000TK-3000TK. Adequate intervention is needed for prevention of injury to children.http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.28-6-2017.152749Injurychildrenagesexmonthly incomeurban slum
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title Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum
title_full Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum
title_fullStr Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum
title_full_unstemmed Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum
title_short Socio-demographic Factors of The Child Injuries in an Urban Slum
title_sort socio demographic factors of the child injuries in an urban slum
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children
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monthly income
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url http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.28-6-2017.152749
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