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

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.