The Evaluation of Pediatric Physical Trauma Cases and Determination of Affecting Factors

Abstract

Objective: To evaluating of pediatric physical trauma cases and determination of affecting factors. Method: This study, which is descriptive type, applied to the children aged 0-18 who had trauma and their parents who accepted to participate to this study between September 2014 and June 2015 in the emergency service of Erzurum Regional training and research hospital. For gathering data a Question Form, Pediatric Trauma Scoring and Glaskow Coma Scale were used. Acquired data was analyzed by percentage distribution, average, variance, t- test and chi square. Ethic principles were considered during the study. Results: The average of trauma of the children was 7.95+3.18. It was determined that those who are one year old or younger (p<.05) and studying in primary or secondary schools (p<.05) had major traumas and the level of trauma was affected by their mother’s working conditions (p<.01) and father’s ages (p<.05). It was also determined that children of nonworking mothers (p<.01) and the fathers aged 23-35 (p<.05) had major traumas significantly. The coma levels of the children who had multiple traumas p<.001), trauma in chest p<.001), trauma occurring from traffic accidents (p<.05), one year and younger age (p <.001), do not go to school (p <.001), the only child in the family (p <.01) were significantly lower. It was found out that there was a positive strong relationship between children’s coma and trauma levels. Conclusion: It was determined that the children had serious traumas at home, on the streets and at schools. Moreover, it requires the interventions to alleviate the trauma seriousness and to recover coma in parallel with recovery of the level of trauma. It might have positive effects on this topic that families, school managements and teachers are informed and their awareness of taking protective measures to prevent accidents are raised.