Epidemiological characteristics of injury cases among children and adolescents aged 0-18 years in Baoji City from 2020 to 2022
Objective To analyze the characteristics of injury cases among children and adolescents aged 0-18 years in Baoji City from 2020 to 2022,and to provide scientific basis for reducing injury among children and adolescents in hospitals and local regions.Methods Based on the collection of basic information on injury monitoring cases in sentinel hospitals of Baoji City from 2020 to 2022 according to the National Injury Monitoring Information Management Platform,the occurrence time,cause,location and characteristics of injuries in different years,genders and age groups were analyzed.Excel 2007 software and SPSS 25.0 software were used to organize and analyze the injury monitoring data.Categorical data were described by composition ratios and x2 test was used for statistical analysis.The test level was α=0.05.Results From 2020 to 2022,a total of 3 189 children and adolescents aged 0-18 years were collected from three sentinel hospitals in Baoji City,accounting for 23.00％of all injury cases.There were 2 004 males(62.84％)and 1 185 females(37.16％),with a sex ratio of 1.69∶1.Most of the injuries of children and adolescents occurred in summer,and the most cases were injured by animals.The top three causes of injury in children and adolescents were animal injury(43.43％),fall injury(25.90％)and motor vehicle injury(8.5％).The top three places of injury were home(49.33％),school and other public places(24.11％)and road/street(22.58％).The top three injured places were limbs(61.68％),head or neck(27.38％)and trunk(6.37％).The severity of injury classified into three degrees:mild(85.79％),moderate(12.98％)and severe(1.22％).With the increase of the age of children and adolescents,mild injuries gradually decreased,while the moderate and severe injuries gradually increased.Among the cases of injury among children and adolescents,96.05％were non-intentional injury(accidents),and 3.95％were intentional injury(violence,assault,self-injury/suicide).And the occurrence of intentional injury increased with age and reached 11.90％in adolescence.Conclusions The threat of injury to children and adolescents in Baoji City was increasingly serious.The prevention of injury to children and adolescents should mainly focus on male and animal injuries.Accidental injuries of children and adolescents can be prevented and controlled.Comprehensive intervention measures tailored to different genders,age groups and characteristics of injury occurrence should be implemented in Baoji City.
children and adolescentsaccidental injuryinjury epidemiological characteristicsinjury prevention
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