Table 1.
Sociodemographics characteristics and mode, route, source, and reason of poisoning for acutely poisoned patients who had been admitted at the emergency department of HFCSH.
| Characteristics | Frequency (%) |
Treatment outcome | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good (%) | Poor (%) | ||||
| Sex | Female | 86 (57.3) | 40 (62.5) | 24 (37.5) | 0.21 |
| Male | 64 (42.7) | 45 (52.3) | 41 (47.7) | ||
| Age (years) | <18 | 45 (30) | 26 (57.8) | 19 (42.2) | 0.25 |
| 19–37 | 89 (59.3) | 53 (59.6) | 36 (40.4) | ||
| >38 | 16 (10.7) | 6 (36.5) | 10 (62.5) | ||
| Current residence | Urban | 74 (49.3) | 42 (56.8) | 32 (43.2) | 0.57 |
| Rural | 76 (50.7) | 43 (56.6) | 33 (43.4) | ||
| Mode of poisoning | Accidental | 73 (48.7) | 45 (61.6) | 28 (38.4) | 0.23 |
| Suicidal | 77 (51.3) | 40 (51.9) | 37 (48.1) | ||
| Reason for accidental poisoning | Mental disorder | 41 (56.2) | 31 (75.6) | 10 (24.4) | 0.004* |
| Eating food | 32 (43.8) | 13 (41.9) | 18 (58.1) | ||
| Reason for suicidal poisoning | Family disharmony | 31 (40.3) | 25 (80.6) | 6 (19.4) | ------- |
| Marital disharmony | 10 (12.9) | 6 (60) | 4 (40) | ||
| Exam failure | 8 (10.4) | 4 (50) | 4 (50) | ||
| Unplanned pregnancy | 15 (19.5) | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | ||
| Conflict in work area | 13 (16.9) | 9 (69.2) | 4 (30.8) | ||
| Route of poisoning | Oral | 111 (74.0) | 65 (58.6) | 46 (41.4) | ------ |
| Inhalational | 38 (25.3) | 19 (50) | 19 (50) | ||
| Bite | 1 (0.7) | 1 | 0 | ||
| Source of poisoning | Home | 81 (54.0) | 52 (64.2) | 29 (35.8) | 0.005 * |
| Hotel | 33 (22.0) | 21 (63.6) | 12 (36.4) | ||
| Workplace | 36 (24.0) | 12 (33.3) | 24 (66.7) | ||
The p value was calculated by using the Pearson chi-square test, *there is an association between the reason for accidental poisoning and treatment outcome, and ------Not fulfilled chi-square test assumption.