Epidemiological characteristics and trend analysis of injured children aged 0-14 years in Shijiazhuang city,2015-2021
Objective To explore the epidemiological characteristics and variation tendency of injury among children aged 0-14 in Shijiazhuang city from 2015 to 2021,so as to provide scientific basis for prevention and control of child injury.Methods To collect the information of injury cases of children aged 0-14 who were admitted to the monitoring hospital in Shijiazhuang from 2015 to 2021,and analyze the epidemiological characteristics and the trend of injury change.Results A total of 22 302 child>injury ca-ses aged 0-14 were reported,with the male and female ratio appeared as 1.89∶1.00.Except for the 0-<1-year-old group,the number of cases in boys was higher than that in girls.The main injuries among chil-dren were falling/falling(59.77%),at home(47.58%),leisure activities(59.67%)and unintentional injuries(96.92%).The most injuries occurred in September(10.60%)and the least in February(4.81%).The most vulnerable parts of children were the head(40.25%),upper limbs(22.76%)and lower limbs(19.07%),42.75%cases were bruise.The degree of injury was mild(89.13%)and the out-come was mainly post-treatment hospitalization(94.12%).Joinpoint regression showed that the constituent ratio of injury cases among children aged 1-<4 showed a downward trend from 2015 to 2021,while those aged 7-<11 and 11-14 showed an upward trend.Animal injuries and poisoning injuries showed a downward trend from 2015 to 2021.Sports venues showed an upward trend and walking injuries showed a downward trend,with statistical significance in each year(All P<0.05).Conclusions The epidemiological charac-teristics of injury in children of different gender and age are not all the same,and the change trend of injury is different.Therefore,targeted prevention and intervention measures should be taken.
ChildWounds and injuriesEpidemiological studiesChange trend