• Abeer Abed Gatea, Shatha Mahmood Niazi, Reza Pakzad, Mohsen Mohammadi, and Mustafa A Abdullah.
• Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, International Campus Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran.
• Int J Burns Trauma. 2019 Jan 1; 9 (2): 41-48.

BackgroundBurns remained a major health problem in most developing countries which have increased the mortality and morbidity among the people. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology and outcomes of burn among females at reproductive age and investigate the factors that associated with mortality during the study period in in Baghdad/Iraq.MethodsA retrospective cohort study was undertaken at Al-Karama academic Hospital in Baghdad. Four hundred and thirty-seven females were admitted to this center from 1st of January 2017 to the end of October 2018. Data were collected from the records and patient file at the department of statistics. The information was including the age, education, marital status, occupation, TBSA, degree of burn, length of stay in hospital, causes, and patient condition. Software of STATA version 13 was used to analysis this data.ResultsThe mean age was 27.1 and SD 0.34 with 95% CI (26.4358 to 27.8067). the fire 64.8% (283/437) were the most cause of burn among females. Housewives 65% (284/437) were more probably exposed to burn than others with the mechanism of burning and females with primary education 42.8% (187/437) were more probability of burn than others group. Regard to length of stay, the mean was 7 days and the 95% CI [6.489-7.629]. Thus, 79.2% (346/437) of females that stayed in the hospital for less than 10 days had higher percentage of burn comparing with another period. Mean and SE of TBSA was 57.8 and 1.2 with the 95% CI [55.4051-60.2516]. A significant relationship was found between occupation, education status, TBSA, length of stay, causes of burn and outcomes at the p. value <0.05. The time at risk was 3085 with the incidence rate. 14. The survivor function in one day (Kaplan Meier estimate) was 0.8970 and SE 0.0144 with 95% CI [0.8645-0.9221].ConclusionThe patients at age 26-45 years have equal hazard ratio of death (HR=1) at all the times of follow-upping. There is not statistically significant have been found at the (p. value =0.486), the 95% CI for the HR includes the null value of 1. As well the causes of burn, the patients with fire cause have a higher hazard of death HR=1.1 with the (p. value =0.012). Half of cases were single. A significant relationship has been found between the marital status and the age groups of the p. value 0.000. Also, a significant result of the intent status with causes of burn at the p. value 0.000.

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