Gorrita PRR, Taylor PN, Utria MM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: non intentional lesions or accidents represent a world health.
Objectives: to apply and evaluate a communitarian evaluation about risk factors and accidents of children younger than five years old at home.
Methods: a cohort quasi-experimental communitarian intervention was carried out in 122 children and their families form four Doctor’s Offices at “Alberto Fernandez Valdés” policlinic-hospital in Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque province from September 1st , 2013 to March 31st, 2014. The variables were: age, risk factors of accidents, risk degrees of accidents at home and antecedents of accidents in the six previous months to the intervention. A questionnaire about accidents and risk factors was applied and evaluated at the beginning of the study and after six months of applying the intervention.
Results: the most frequent risk factors of accidents at home were: left alone children, 45.0%, equipment, and electric installation without protection, 36.0% and free access to the area of the kitchen 33.6%. Homes at low risks prevailed with the 69.7 %. The 60.6% of the children presented accidents in the six previous months. The most frequent accidents were: falls that required medical treatments, 22.1%, introduction of foreign objects, 18.8% y burns, 10.6%. After the intervention the risk factors and accidents decreased significantly.
Conclusions: It is considered that the communitarian intervention was successful. It is recommended the used classification of risk of the study and keep on performing interventions with this methodology.