Children´s accident is a largely preventable public health problem. Little is known, however, about population-based incident and outcome of pediatric accident.
From 1997,9 through 1998,8, admission data from emergency center in I city were collected. 1418 patient from 0 through 13 years of age were selected.
All children with unintensional accidental problems were identified through coded sheet which categorizes epidemiologic characteristics.
The specific purposes of this study are analysis about the characteristics of pediatric accidents. And it aims to produce the basic data necessary for accident prevention policy development.
The results of this study were as follows;
1. The number of male children(62.6%) were higher than female children(37.4%)
2. The age group from 1 to 3 years represents the highest proportion(45.4%) of every accidents except on traffic accident.
3. The highest proportion of accident were as follows : occurred during the June-August(34%), Sunday(22.6 %), and 17 - 21 p.m.(37.2 %)
4. The main causes of accident include general trauma(70.9%), environmental accident(16.8 %), and traffic accident(12.1%),
5. Preschool age group represents more than half(65.4 %) of traffic accident.
6. environmental injury includes burns (46.6%), foreign body(43.6%), exposure to poisonous materials(6.3%), and bite(3.3)
This results could be used to develope prevention programs and assist in accident prevention system development. And also these data substantiate that accident prevention program decrease safety-related injury rate in preschool age group must be concentrated on enhancing access to a system to have a significant effect.
Furthermore, it is necessary for accident prevention. So several suggestions are described here:
1. Development of parent´s educational program for accident prevention and safety education should be done actively.
2. Home safety surveillance system should be initiated.
3. The initiation of children´s accident report system could be contribute the analysis and the reduction of accident.
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