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Unintentional Injuries Among Under-five Children in a Rural Area in Delhi

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Abstract

Objective

To determine the prevalence of unintentional injuries and its associated factors among under-five children in Rural Delhi.

Methods

This community based cross-sectional study was conducted in Pooth Khurd village of Delhi during 2018 among under-five children and their care givers. Primary caregivers of the child in the randomly selected households were interviewed using a semi-structured pretested questionnaire. Data related to unintentional injuries in past 12 months and its associated factors were collected.

Results

Unintentional injuries were prevalent in 29.3% (95% CI: 25.8–32.9) of the 650 under-five children included. Male children had 1.4 times increased prevalence of injuries (aPR=1.4, 95% CI: 1.1–1.7). As the age increases from 2 years to 5 years the prevalence of injuries increased constantly from 29% to 50%. The prevalence of unintentional injuries was significantly higher among children of working mothers (aPR=1.7, 95% CI: 1.4–2.1), family with more than 3 children (aPR=1.6, 95% CI: 1.1–2.4), household without a separate kitchen (aPR=1.6, 95% CI: 1.2–2.2) and household with inadequate lighting (aPR=1.8, 95% CI: 1.4–2.3).

Conclusions

The factors significantly associated with unintentional injuries were male gender, higher age of the children, maternal occupation, increased number of children in the family, not having a separate kitchen and inadequate lighting.

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  1. Department of Community Medicine, Lok Nayak Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, 110 002, India

    Jagriti Bhatia, M. Meghachandra Singh, Yamini Marimuthu, Suneela Garg & Pragya Sharma

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Lok Nayak Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

    K. Rajeshwari

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Institutional Ethics Committee, MAMC, No.F.No.17/IEC/MAMC/2017/248 dated 4 May, 2018.

Contributors

JB and MMS is involved in planning and the conduct of the study, data acquisition, writing the first draft of manuscript and carrying out consecutive revisions; YM is involved in the literature search, data acquisition, analysis, data interpretation, writing the first draft of manuscript and carrying out consecutive revisions. SG, PS and KR are involved in the planning of the study, preparation and revisions of the manuscript.

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Bhatia, J., Singh, M.M., Marimuthu, Y. et al. Unintentional Injuries Among Under-five Children in a Rural Area in Delhi. Indian Pediatr 58, 560–563 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-021-2241-3

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