Factors affecting management outcome of burn injury Among Hospitalized under Five Children at selected public hospital in Kefa zone, south west Ethiopia.

Abstract

Back ground ; A burn is an injury to the skin or other tissue primarily caused by heat or due to radiation, radioactivity, electricity, friction, or contact with chemicals. The treatment of burn demands many hours for wound care from nursing staff, possibly multiple surgical procedures, and costly hospital care so, this study was aimed to identify factors affecting management outcome of burn injury Among Hospitalized under Five Children at Selected Public Hospital Kefa zone, south west Ethiopia Methods; Hospital based retrospective study design was employed with the total of 238 participants, randomly selected medical card of under-five children admitted at selected public hospital in kefa zone reviewed for five years using checklists adapted from previous literatures. Binary and multiple logistic regressions were used to identify factors associated with management outcome of burn. Result; This study reported that more than half of respondents were females 55.9% and 64.7% of them were urban dwellers, management outcome of burn 65.1% of participants discharged without complications and only 1.2% of them were dead with burn after treatment, furthermore this finding also mentioned that age, residency, surface area of burn, pre hospital intervention and duration of presentation were significantly associated factors with management outcome of burn injury. Conclusion; This study concluded that majority of under five children who were admitted with burn injury were discharged without complications. In addition age, residencies, surface area, duration of presentation before admission, provision of Tetanus anti toxoid and pre hospital intervention were factors which affect management outcome of burn.