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Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil

OBJECTIVE: To identify the factors that determine unintentional injuries in children living in the community of Paraisopolis, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: A cross-sectional and non-controlled study. Data collected during 4 consecutive months through questionnaires filled out for the Ei...

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Autores principales: Waksman, Renata Dejtiar, Carrera, Renato Melli, Santos, Erica, Abramovici, Sulim, Schvartsman, Cláudio
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Publicado: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4898230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24728237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082014AO2434
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author Waksman, Renata Dejtiar
Carrera, Renato Melli
Santos, Erica
Abramovici, Sulim
Schvartsman, Cláudio
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Carrera, Renato Melli
Santos, Erica
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Schvartsman, Cláudio
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description OBJECTIVE: To identify the factors that determine unintentional injuries in children living in the community of Paraisopolis, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: A cross-sectional and non-controlled study. Data collected during 4 consecutive months through questionnaires filled out for the Einstein Program in Paraisopolis Community included identification of the patient and his/her family, scholarity level, housing conditions, storage of hazardous products, access to the streets and concrete slab ceilings, supervision, and trauma mechanism involved. The observed data were treated as absolute and relative frequencies; χ(2), Fisher's exact test, Student's t test, and Mann-Whitney's tests were implemented, with a significance level of 5% (p<0.05). RESULTS: A total of 1,490 questionnaires were analyzed. There was a predominance of trauma within boys (59.6%) and the medium age was 5.2 years. The predominant educational level of the parents was incomplete junior school education. The main caregiver identified was the mother (69.4%). Among the children that suffered trauma, 56.4% belonged to large families (≥6 people), lived in houses up to three rooms, and a family income up to R$ 1,000.00 (76.6%). Easy access to hazardous materials was considerable and free access to concrete slab ceilings was reported in 92.8% of the cases. The main trauma mechanisms were falls and burns. In this study, the child victim of a fall was aged under 5 years. CONCLUSION: Small children that live in a hazardous environment have a significant tendency to suffering trauma
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spelling pubmed-48982302016-08-10 Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil Waksman, Renata Dejtiar Carrera, Renato Melli Santos, Erica Abramovici, Sulim Schvartsman, Cláudio Einstein (Sao Paulo) Original Article OBJECTIVE: To identify the factors that determine unintentional injuries in children living in the community of Paraisopolis, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: A cross-sectional and non-controlled study. Data collected during 4 consecutive months through questionnaires filled out for the Einstein Program in Paraisopolis Community included identification of the patient and his/her family, scholarity level, housing conditions, storage of hazardous products, access to the streets and concrete slab ceilings, supervision, and trauma mechanism involved. The observed data were treated as absolute and relative frequencies; χ(2), Fisher's exact test, Student's t test, and Mann-Whitney's tests were implemented, with a significance level of 5% (p<0.05). RESULTS: A total of 1,490 questionnaires were analyzed. There was a predominance of trauma within boys (59.6%) and the medium age was 5.2 years. The predominant educational level of the parents was incomplete junior school education. The main caregiver identified was the mother (69.4%). Among the children that suffered trauma, 56.4% belonged to large families (≥6 people), lived in houses up to three rooms, and a family income up to R$ 1,000.00 (76.6%). Easy access to hazardous materials was considerable and free access to concrete slab ceilings was reported in 92.8% of the cases. The main trauma mechanisms were falls and burns. In this study, the child victim of a fall was aged under 5 years. CONCLUSION: Small children that live in a hazardous environment have a significant tendency to suffering trauma Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4898230/ /pubmed/24728237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082014AO2434 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Waksman, Renata Dejtiar
Carrera, Renato Melli
Santos, Erica
Abramovici, Sulim
Schvartsman, Cláudio
Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title_full Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title_fullStr Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title_short Morbidity due trauma in children of the community of Paraisopolis, São Paulo, Brazil
title_sort morbidity due trauma in children of the community of paraisopolis, são paulo, brazil
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4898230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24728237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082014AO2434
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