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Children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in Bangladesh

BACKGROUND: Childhood falls is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. In-depth understanding of the situation by the target groups and their families is necessary for successful development, implementation and evaluation of any intervention. The study aimed at knowing the views of Bangladeshi...

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Autores principales: Chowdhury, Salim Mahmud, Svanström, Leif, Hörte, Lars-Gunnar, Chowdhury, Rabiul Awal, Rahman, Fazlur
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24168265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1022
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author Chowdhury, Salim Mahmud
Svanström, Leif
Hörte, Lars-Gunnar
Chowdhury, Rabiul Awal
Rahman, Fazlur
author_facet Chowdhury, Salim Mahmud
Svanström, Leif
Hörte, Lars-Gunnar
Chowdhury, Rabiul Awal
Rahman, Fazlur
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description BACKGROUND: Childhood falls is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. In-depth understanding of the situation by the target groups and their families is necessary for successful development, implementation and evaluation of any intervention. The study aimed at knowing the views of Bangladeshi rural children about childhood falls and their suggestions for prevention. METHODS: Children of 10–17 were selected purposely from 4 villages of Sherpur Sadar upazila (sub-district), Sherpur district of Bangladesh. Six focus group discussions and ten in-depth interviews were conducted during July-August 2010 for this study. Gender and education of the participants were considered. Major themes were identified, coded and categorized from content analysis. RESULTS: Participants stated that young children (<5 years of age) and boys appeared to be the main victims of falls and majority of these injuries occurred in and around the households. Boys commonly fall from the tree around their premises and high places. Girls usually fall when they remain busy in household chores and playing with friends around their premises. Participants also mentioned that children mostly sustained injury when they are unsupervised. Supervision, public awareness and putting barriers (e.g. door barrier, putting pillow and use net around the bed etc.) were suggested as the preventive measures. CONCLUSION: Findings of this study could be considered as part of knowledge-base in designing interventions to address childhood falls.
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spelling pubmed-42314612014-11-15 Children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in Bangladesh Chowdhury, Salim Mahmud Svanström, Leif Hörte, Lars-Gunnar Chowdhury, Rabiul Awal Rahman, Fazlur BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Childhood falls is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. In-depth understanding of the situation by the target groups and their families is necessary for successful development, implementation and evaluation of any intervention. The study aimed at knowing the views of Bangladeshi rural children about childhood falls and their suggestions for prevention. METHODS: Children of 10–17 were selected purposely from 4 villages of Sherpur Sadar upazila (sub-district), Sherpur district of Bangladesh. Six focus group discussions and ten in-depth interviews were conducted during July-August 2010 for this study. Gender and education of the participants were considered. Major themes were identified, coded and categorized from content analysis. RESULTS: Participants stated that young children (<5 years of age) and boys appeared to be the main victims of falls and majority of these injuries occurred in and around the households. Boys commonly fall from the tree around their premises and high places. Girls usually fall when they remain busy in household chores and playing with friends around their premises. Participants also mentioned that children mostly sustained injury when they are unsupervised. Supervision, public awareness and putting barriers (e.g. door barrier, putting pillow and use net around the bed etc.) were suggested as the preventive measures. CONCLUSION: Findings of this study could be considered as part of knowledge-base in designing interventions to address childhood falls. BioMed Central 2013-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4231461/ /pubmed/24168265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1022 Text en Copyright © 2013 Chowdhury et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Svanström, Leif
Hörte, Lars-Gunnar
Chowdhury, Rabiul Awal
Rahman, Fazlur
Children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in Bangladesh
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title_fullStr Children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in Bangladesh
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title_short Children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in Bangladesh
title_sort children’s perceptions about falls and their prevention: a qualitative study from a rural setting in bangladesh
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24168265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1022
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