ArticleBMC pediatrics2026
Comparing burn wound for under-five children between rural and urban areas in Dodoma Region: understanding caregiver supervision, household hazards, and children's risk behaviours on the burn wound.
Article in BMC pediatrics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundBurn injuries among children under five remain a significant public health concern globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Tanzania. Despite various national efforts, the burden and associated factors of burns, particularly in relation to rural-urban differences, have not been well-documented in the Dodoma Region. The study aimed to compare the prevalence of burn wounds and associated factors among children under five years old between rural and urban areas in Dodoma Region.
methodsAn analytical cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2025, involving 299 children under five years from both rural and urban areas in the Dodoma Region. Data were collected through structured questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS version 27 with descriptive and inferential statistics.
resultsOverall, the prevalence of burn wounds for children under five was 78 (26%) for both urban and rural areas. By categorizing, 31 (39.7%) of burn wound cases were from urban areas, and 47 (60.3%) cases were from rural areas. In rural areas, good caregiver supervision was associated with the majority of children under five ending up with no burn wound (χ
conclusionThis study found that burn injuries among under-five children in the Dodoma region are more prevalent in rural areas than in urban areas. In comparing predictors of burn wounds in rural and urban areas, a major contributing factor to burn wounds in rural areas is poor caregiver supervision, while the predictor of burn wounds in urban areas is household hazards.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.