The Epidemiologic assaying of burns accidents in children referring to emergency center of Rafsanjan medical sciences university

Burns is one of the worst injuries which a person can experience and one of childhood problems that cause lost of cost and infirmities and economical cost for families. Its prevention requires to epidemiologic assay and corporate effective strategy. This study performed on children who burned and refered to Rafsanjan emergency unit during one year. A checklist was completed by interview patient. Data was analyzed by spss and description statistics. Results showed burns was 9.6% of total accidents and boys were1.4 times more than girls and the most of burns were in children with age less than 36 months (55.67%) and family with 4 persons (47.42%) and urban children (ratio of city to rural was 3.3). 85.36 percent occurred in the home and 62.37% occurred during the day and 28.87% occurred during the spring. The reason of burns was 85.06% hot liquids, 12.37% fire, 2.06% explosion and. 51% falling in to oven. Regard to this results, performing training programs to prevention of the burns in home and consulting with the parents are very important and able to decrease of burning accidents.