Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury

Completed

• Conditions: Abdominal Trauma

• Registration Number: NCT05538390
• Lead Sponsor: St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia

Brief Summary

This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done at SPHMMC and AaBET hospitals from January 2018 to December 2019.The study aimed to assess the pattern of abdominal injury at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency and Trauma (AaBET) hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors.The collected data was entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 25.0.

Detailed Description

Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors. The questionnaire was categorized into socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, and address), clinical profile (triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management, and outcome (management, complication, disposition, and mortality). Completeness of data was checked by the principal investigator.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-05-30
• Study Completion: 2020-06-10
• Status Verified: 2022-09
• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-09-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-09-10
• Study First Posted: 2022-09-13
• Last Update Posted: 2022-09-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 165

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients who are diagnosed clinically to have abdominal trauma

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who died before diagnosis

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pattern of Abdominal Injury	Over 2 years	Frequency was analyzed in respective to socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, address), clinical profile(triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management and outcome (management, complication, disposition and mortality) in patients presented with Abdominal injury in the study period.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College; 🇪🇹 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia