Prevalence of Traumatic Injuries and Associated Factors at the Emergency Departments of Jigjiga Public Hospitals, Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia 2023

Background- Trauma or injury has been defined as damage to the body caused by an exchange with environmental energy that is outside the body’s resilience. It is a health problem across lifespan, ranking in the top ten causes of death and projected to rank as the 4th leading cause of disability adjusted life years by 2030 globally. Traumaumatic Injuries are an important public health concern, and remain a growing problem in some countries. Objective- The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of traumatic injuries and associated factors at the emergency departments of jigjiga public hospitals, 2023. Methodology- An institution -based cross-sectional study was conducted at JUSHYRH and Karamara general hospitals. A total of three hundred 351 traumatic injured patients in the study was involved in the study and systematic random sampling.. Simple random sampling was employed to select the study participants. Data was analyzed with statistical package software for social scientist (SPSS, version 20, IBM Inc Chicago). Descriptive statistics and logistic regressions was carried out to compute the different rate, proportion and relevant association. Variables with P-value < 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. Results- Out of the total 351 patients who visited the emergency delivery during the study period, 347 of them agreed to participate in the study with a response rate of 98.8%; and of them, 103 (29.3%) were traumatic injury cases. After the multivariate logistic regression analysis, previous injury, cause of injury, place of injury taken place, previous disability, being a driver were found to be significantly associated with traumatic injury at P- value less than 0.05. Conclusion and recommendation: Prevalence of traumatic injury was found high in our study population and with previous injury, cause of injury, place of injury taken place, previous disability, being a driver were significantly significantly associated traumatic injury. Somali region mass media should launch Adult health education program about the effect of substance use especially chat chewing