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Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Building fires can be a great threat to the safety of residents, and can lead to economic and social damage. Exploring the views of stakeholders is a great source for understanding the factors that affect fires. The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders’ experiences of uninte...
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Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30770524 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1059 |
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author | Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud |
author_facet | Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud |
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description | BACKGROUND: Building fires can be a great threat to the safety of residents, and can lead to economic and social damage. Exploring the views of stakeholders is a great source for understanding the factors that affect fires. The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders’ experiences of unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings in Iran. METHODS: This qualitative study was carried out using grounded theory. The study was conducted in Iran, in 2017. The study participants consisted of 25 people including stakeholders who had practical experience/or were knowledgeable in the field of preventing and fighting building fires. Purposeful and theoretical sampling were used for data collection. Data were analyzed based on constant comparative analysis and according to recommendations by Strauss and Corbin. RESULTS: "Lack of a comprehensive approach to prevention of fire-related injury" emerged as a core variable which impacted on residents' safety against fires. The findings were classified into four groups of challenges related to the structure of building, socio-economic challenge, residents of the building and rescue services. CONCLUSIONS: Based on participants` experiences, unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings are affected by cultural context and economic, social and geographical factors. Improving the safety against unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings requires multidisciplinary operations including both change and improvement of the building construction and change in the beliefs and practices of residents to increase safety against fires. |
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spelling | pubmed-64209212019-03-20 Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud J Inj Violence Res Injury &Violence BACKGROUND: Building fires can be a great threat to the safety of residents, and can lead to economic and social damage. Exploring the views of stakeholders is a great source for understanding the factors that affect fires. The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders’ experiences of unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings in Iran. METHODS: This qualitative study was carried out using grounded theory. The study was conducted in Iran, in 2017. The study participants consisted of 25 people including stakeholders who had practical experience/or were knowledgeable in the field of preventing and fighting building fires. Purposeful and theoretical sampling were used for data collection. Data were analyzed based on constant comparative analysis and according to recommendations by Strauss and Corbin. RESULTS: "Lack of a comprehensive approach to prevention of fire-related injury" emerged as a core variable which impacted on residents' safety against fires. The findings were classified into four groups of challenges related to the structure of building, socio-economic challenge, residents of the building and rescue services. CONCLUSIONS: Based on participants` experiences, unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings are affected by cultural context and economic, social and geographical factors. Improving the safety against unintentional fire-related injuries in residential buildings requires multidisciplinary operations including both change and improvement of the building construction and change in the beliefs and practices of residents to increase safety against fires. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6420921/ /pubmed/30770524 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1059 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Injury &Violence Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title | Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title_full | Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title_short | Exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
title_sort | exploring barriers and challenges in protecting residential fire-related injuries: a qualitative study |
topic | Injury &Violence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30770524 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1059 |
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