Citation

Peltzer K. Cent. Afr. J. Med. 1989; 35(2): 319-322.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Central African Journal of Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2776197

Abstract

200 children (0-14 years) with an accident/injury at the surgical admission ward of the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka were investigated by interviewing children and parents/relatives on especially psycho-social and environmental factors of the accidents. As a result, four major potential causes could be identified: (1) Lack of supervision by parent or teacher; (2) Environmental hazards; (3) Attention seeking and (4) Cultural conflict or lower socio-economic class. On this basis various preventive measures are proposed, on the lines of improving on psycho-social stressors and controlling environmental agents, taking a developmental perspective of the child into account.

Language: en