We recommend that caregivers take the required action in keeping prescribed drugs at home. Family and community education should be given on prevention of poisoning. Psychosocial counseling and care for the affected children is lacking. Prescribed drugs are the commonest causes. CONCLUSION: Most poisoning incidents are unintentional. None of the victims was provided psychosocial evaluation and counseling. Children with age more than 5 years was more likely to have intentional poisoning ( χ 2=25.06, P<0.0001). Age less than 2 years was related to earlier presentation to health facility ( P=0.010, OR=0.28, 95% CI=0.10-0.74). The median time to health facility visit was 15.5 hours. Most poisoning incidents (73.5%) were unintentional in nature. The majority (29.7%) were poisoned by prescribed drugs. The mean age of victims was 5.46 (SD, standard deviation=4.48) years. RESULTS: Over three years, we retrieved records of a total of 128 children admitted for acute poisoning. Data were entered to Epi info 3.5.3 and analyzed with SPSS version 20. Description of demographics of children with acute poisoning and factors associated with time to presentation and nature of poisoning were analyzed.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted at three major pediatric referral hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This study aimed to assess the characteristics of children with acute poisoning, and factors for time of presentation to health facility and nature of poisoning. BACKGROUND: There is a lack of evidence on description of burden and cases of childhood poisoning in developing countries.
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