Burns in Nepal: a participatory, community survey of burn cases and knowledge, attitudes and practices to burn care and prevention in three rural municipalities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As part of an ongoing, long-term project to co-create burn prevention strategies in Nepal, we collected baseline data to share and discuss with the local community, use as a basis for a co-created prevention strategy and then monitor changes over time. This paper reports on the method and outcomes of the baseline survey and demonstrates how the data are presented back to the community.

Design

A community-based survey.

Setting

Community based in three rural municipalities in Nepal.

Participants

1305 households were approached: the head of 1279 households participated, giving a response rate of 98%. In 90.3% of cases, the head of the household was male.

Results

We found that 2.7% (CI 1.8 to 3.7) of 1279 households, from three representative muni

SUBMITTER: Phuyal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050363 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature