Home safety hazards associated with unintentional poisoning among children aged 0-5 years in Mongolia: A case-control study.
Trop Med Int Health
; 29(4): 273-279, 2024 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the association between home safety hazards and unintentional poisoning in children in Mongolia.METHODS:
We conducted a case-control study using structured questionnaires to investigate safety behaviours, safety equipment use, and home hazards in households with or without children aged 0-5 years who had suffered from poisoning at home (i.e., cases and controls). We recruited 190 cases (105 medicinal and 84 non-medicinal poisonings, and one each) at the National Center for Maternal and Child Health and 379 controls in the communities between 1 March and 30 October 2021.RESULTS:
There were large differences between cases' and controls' households in safety behaviours and home hazards the failure to store all medicines out of reach of children (68% of cases vs. 25% of controls), the failure to store all medicines safely (out of reach, locked or non-existent) (61% vs. 22%), the failure to put all medicines away immediately after use (77% vs. 43%), the presence of things that a child could climb on to reach high surfaces (82% vs. 67%), the presence of medicines transferred into different containers (28% vs. 9%) and the presence of household products transferred into different containers (28% vs. 16%). These home safety hazards were strongly associated with poisoning after controlling for confounders.CONCLUSION:
Children's risk of unintentional poisoning was strongly associated with the unsafe storage of potentially poisonous agents by caregivers and home hazards. Since unsafe storage is widespread, a fail-safe approach such as child-resistant closure of medicines and household products should be considered.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
3_ND
Problema de salud:
3_zoonosis
Asunto principal:
Intoxicación
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Equipos de Seguridad
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
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Infant
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Trop Med Int Health
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Trop. med. int. health
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Tropical medicine and international health
Asunto de la revista:
MEDICINA TROPICAL
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón