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Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)

BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is globally considered as one of the leading causes of injury related deaths. Defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion in a liquid medium. Drowning is a public health concern in Jordan. This s...

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Autores principales: Shotar, Ali M, Halalsheh, Mahmoud, Shatnawi, Rashed, Abu-El-Rub, Hadeel, Hussein, Nahd A., Shoter, Sarah, Mahafdhah, Hassan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35422567
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2022.76.49-54
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author Shotar, Ali M
Halalsheh, Mahmoud
Shatnawi, Rashed
Abu-El-Rub, Hadeel
Hussein, Nahd A.
Shoter, Sarah
Mahafdhah, Hassan
author_facet Shotar, Ali M
Halalsheh, Mahmoud
Shatnawi, Rashed
Abu-El-Rub, Hadeel
Hussein, Nahd A.
Shoter, Sarah
Mahafdhah, Hassan
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description BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is globally considered as one of the leading causes of injury related deaths. Defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion in a liquid medium. Drowning is a public health concern in Jordan. This study aimed to investigate drowning incident data from the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre in the North of Jordan for the purpose of defining high risk groups and circumstances around drowning fatalities which suffered an attention deficit. OBJECTIVE: The study aims to describe the rate of fatal drowning in North of Jordan and to properly understand the risk factors associated with it. METHODS: The present study is retrospective, based on investigating 2808 autopsy reports and selecting only 85 drowning related death reports conducted through a 5 year period (2015-2019) in the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre which serves Northern Jordan including Irbid, Jarash, Ajloun, and Al-Mafraq. The statistical analysis of fatal drowning cases included the following risk variables: Age, gender, month, year, nationality, address, alcohol and drug consumption. RESULTS: 15 variables were consistent and analyzed across the database of this study. The high risk groups and patterns were identified and the majority of fatal drowning cases were related to males (80.4%). Age group from (2 to 27 years of age were included in the high-risk groups with (88.2%) of all cases. Specifically, the age 2 had the highest occurring frequency. While (17.6%) of drowning fatalities occurred in August. Alcohol and drugs had no significant impact on increasing drowning rates. The dominant manner of death among all cases was accidental (95.3%). Fatal drowning rates were decreasing throughout the years of (2015-2019). CONCLUSION: Defining drowning high risk groups and its epidemiology helps to overcome this preventable cause of death. The current study highlights the necessity for the need of further interventions to be actively fixed into policies and educational programs and emphasize safety precautions during water activities and to improve the dataset collection for better planning of prevention strategies.
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spelling pubmed-89785402022-04-13 Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019) Shotar, Ali M Halalsheh, Mahmoud Shatnawi, Rashed Abu-El-Rub, Hadeel Hussein, Nahd A. Shoter, Sarah Mahafdhah, Hassan Med Arch Original Paper BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is globally considered as one of the leading causes of injury related deaths. Defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion in a liquid medium. Drowning is a public health concern in Jordan. This study aimed to investigate drowning incident data from the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre in the North of Jordan for the purpose of defining high risk groups and circumstances around drowning fatalities which suffered an attention deficit. OBJECTIVE: The study aims to describe the rate of fatal drowning in North of Jordan and to properly understand the risk factors associated with it. METHODS: The present study is retrospective, based on investigating 2808 autopsy reports and selecting only 85 drowning related death reports conducted through a 5 year period (2015-2019) in the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre which serves Northern Jordan including Irbid, Jarash, Ajloun, and Al-Mafraq. The statistical analysis of fatal drowning cases included the following risk variables: Age, gender, month, year, nationality, address, alcohol and drug consumption. RESULTS: 15 variables were consistent and analyzed across the database of this study. The high risk groups and patterns were identified and the majority of fatal drowning cases were related to males (80.4%). Age group from (2 to 27 years of age were included in the high-risk groups with (88.2%) of all cases. Specifically, the age 2 had the highest occurring frequency. While (17.6%) of drowning fatalities occurred in August. Alcohol and drugs had no significant impact on increasing drowning rates. The dominant manner of death among all cases was accidental (95.3%). Fatal drowning rates were decreasing throughout the years of (2015-2019). CONCLUSION: Defining drowning high risk groups and its epidemiology helps to overcome this preventable cause of death. The current study highlights the necessity for the need of further interventions to be actively fixed into policies and educational programs and emphasize safety precautions during water activities and to improve the dataset collection for better planning of prevention strategies. Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8978540/ /pubmed/35422567 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2022.76.49-54 Text en © 2022 Ali M Shotar, Mahmoud Halalsheh, Rashed Shatnawi, Hadeel Abu-El-Rub, Nahd A. Hussein, Sarah Shoter, Hassan Mahafdhah https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shotar, Ali M
Halalsheh, Mahmoud
Shatnawi, Rashed
Abu-El-Rub, Hadeel
Hussein, Nahd A.
Shoter, Sarah
Mahafdhah, Hassan
Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title_full Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title_fullStr Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title_short Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)
title_sort epidemiological analysis of drowning deaths among different groups in jordan - a retrospective study (2015-2019)
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35422567
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2022.76.49-54
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