The Contributing Factors for Head Traumatic Patients and their Relation to its Outcomes at Al Hilla Teaching Hospital Hadi Wefaqq Mahdi1,*, Mohammad Shatha Saadi1, Baiee Hassan Alwan1 1College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq *Corresponding author: Wefaqq Mahdi Hadi. College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq; E-mail: wefaq3346@gmail.com.
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Head Trauma is a major cause of lifelong disability and death worldwide but is considered a ‘silent epidemic ’as society is largely unaware of the magnitude of the problem. A descriptive analytic study design was carried out to assess the contributing factors to head traumatic patients and its relation to their outcomes at Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital. To achieve the objectives of the study by selected non-probability purposive sample consisted of (100) patients who admitted to the emergency department, the study sample was selected according to specifc criteria, data were collected from April 10th, 2018 to June 30th, 2018, by using designed questionnaire through interview method to the patients or their relatives. The questionnaire divided of (4) parts, part one: contained socio-demographical data, part two: divided into section deals with contributing factors of head trauma, part three outcomes of patients Part four: scale to measure the level of conscious, (GCS), bleeding, associated injuries, convulsive, C.T. scan, days of hospitalization, operation and fnally Glasgow Outcome Scale. The majority of the study sample (89.0%) were male aged (50.0%) middle adult aged between (18–28) years, with low educational level. These factors were positively and signifcantly associated with the outcomes the trauma to the head. Top Keywords Contributing Factors, Head Traumatic Patient, Outcomes. Top |