epidemiology of accidents and traumas in qom province in 2010

conclusions most traumas in qom province occurred among younger age-groups and strikes and fallsn are the main causes of such traumas. therefore, safeties to prevent falls and trafficn regulations to reduce strikes can be effective strategies. patients and methods a cross–sectional study was conducted on 29426 injured people referred to qomn province hospitals in 2010. information about place, time, type of accidents and traumasn and demographic variables had been collected in a veteran hospital. data were analyzedn by spss (version 16) software, using chi-square test and logistic regression. results the incidence of accidents was about 27/1000 per year. the incidences of trafficn accidents, motorcycle accidents, violence, burns, poisoning and suicides were 3, 1.6,n 1.2, 0.3, 0.8, 0.37 cases per 1000 people respectively. strikes (65%) and falls (12%)n were the main causes of traumas. forty-six percent of all injuries had occurred in 16 -n 30 years groups. most frequent accidents were as follows: fall (97%) and strike (50%) inn < 12, violence (46%) in 20 - 29, suicide (71%) in 15 - 29, poisoning (34%) and burnsn (20%) among < 5 years old. pedestrian and motorcycle accidents among +60 years oldn people were significantly higher than other (p = 0.000). odds ratio for suicide amongn female was about 3.36 and in 16 - 30 age-group was 15.7 more than +60 years old group (pn = 0.000). objectives this study was conducted to reveal the epidemiological features of accidents and theirn casualties in qom province in 2010. background accidents are the most important public health challenges in our society. to preventn the accidents, the identification of their epidemiological features seems necessary.