Determinantes de consulta por injúria doméstica não intencional em lactentes no sul do Brasil

Abstract

Aims: To investigate risk factors for medically attended unintentional domestic injuries during the first year of life.

Methods: Socioeconomic, demographic and environmental factors and unintentional domestic injury were investigated in a sweep of data collection of a intervencion study in infants in the Southern Brazilian city of São Leopoldo (n = 500). Odds ratios (OR) for medically attended injuries were estimated for each exposure variable.

Results: Most of the children (86.8%) presented at least one injury during their first year of life and 10.9% received medical assistance due to those injuries. In the multivariate model, the odds of medically attended injuries was the double for children of adolescent mothers compared to the others (OR =2,07; CI95%: 1,01-4,25; p=0,046). The Odds was 48% less for families with the physical and social scale of the HOME inventory bellow the median of the sample (OR =0,52; CI95%: 0,26-1,01; p=0,054). The number of siblings showed an effect in the unadjusted model, but