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. 2024 Feb 20;24:528. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18032-9

Table 5.

Fatal drownings by water location

Reference Study time period Study population Fatal—Drowning (n)
Beach/Sea Pool Stream/River/Creek Lake/Pond Irrigation Channel Dam Hole/Well Bucket Others
Aşırdizer et al. 2005 [18] 1996–2000 Infant and adolescent—age ≤ 18 11
Atilgan et al. 2022 [19] 2010–2019 All age 116 58
Azmak (2006) [20] 1984–2004 All age 5 30 2 4
Çakmakçı et al. (2021) [24] 2008–2018 All age 116 1
Dirlik et al. (2021) [28] 2002–2012 Children—age ≤ 18 5 4 6 3 16 5
Esiyok et al. (2006) [30] 1992–2022 All age 21 7
Güzel et al. (2013) [31] 2005–2012 Children—age ≤ 18 41 6 2 2 4
Işın et al. (2020) [7] 2005–2017 Children—age ≤ 18 580 182 867 482 640 209 182 163
Işın et al. (2021) [34] 2015–2019 All age—rescue-related drownings 59 7 81 27 26 30 7
Ketenci et al. (2022) [35] 2009–2016 All age 4 30 7
Lapa et al. (2012) [38] 2006–2010 All age 61 21 35 12
Mollaoğlu et al. (2013) [40] 2009–2010 All age 2 1 4
Turgut (2012) [49] 2009 All age—multiple drowning syndromes 7 2 14 5 2 1
Turgut and Turgut (2012) [50] 2005–2008 All age—rescue-related drownings 20 5 37 41 6 3 1
Turgut and Turgut (2014) [9] 2007–2011 All age 856 382 405