Prevalence of Trauma and Related Factors in Iranian Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review

Abstract Introduction: Childhood and adolescence is one of the most sensitive periods of life, and attention to the health of children and adolescents is very important in this period. this study was conducted to determine the prevalence rate of trauma types and its effective factors by systematic review. Methods: This study is a systematic review of published articles in April ۲۰۰۰ to March ۲۰۲۰.The search on trauma and its related factors in people under the age of ۱۸ years old were carried out. We tried to identify all the factors affecting the trauma and design the key words of the paper based on them. Search and data extraction were based on the PRISMA checklist. All the extracted articles were imported into the EndNote X۸ software and the studies that were extracted several times were deleted. Then, the data extraction and quality analysis of the articles was done by two researchers separately and the data was reported through a descriptive report and use of systematic review tables. Results: In the search of ۱۳۵۶ articles, the search was started and after re-examination, ۵۶۶ articles continued to the next stage. Then ۳۰۹ articles were excluded from the study and ۸۹ articles entered the next steps. After reviewing the complete file of articles, ۴۳ articles were removed and finally ۲۰ articles were entered into the systematic review stage. In some articles it has been in the form of a clinical examination and in others in the form of self-report and parental questions.

Keywords:

Trauma , Children , Adolescents , Systematic review