en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="color:#24a3a0">Background and Objective:</span></b> Ensuring children&#39;s health is a critical indicator of public health improvement, underscoring the importance of conducting studies in this area. The aim of this study was to examine the epidemiology of poisoning among children admitted to Esfarayen Hospital from 2019 to 2024.</span><br> <span style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="color:#24a3a0">Methods:</span></b> This cross-sectional study investigated the medical records of all children <18 years with poisoning admitted to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Esfarayen between 2019 and 2024 and the number of patients was 1140. Data including age, sex, cause of poisoning and poisoning outcomes were collected using hospital records, and analysis was performed using SPSS 26, R software.</span><br> <span style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="color:#24a3a0">Findings:</span></b> In this study, the incidence of poisoning was higher in girls (59.6%) compared to boys (40.4%). Among the 1,140 children hospitalized due to poisoning, 593 pediatric (52%) were older than 13 years, 83 cases (7.3%) were between 6 and 12 years old, and 464 children (40.7%) were younger than 6 years. The most common causes of poisoning were, respectively, opioid medication (31.1%), alcohol (4.4%), gasoline and kerosene (1.2%), carbon monoxide (0.9%) pesticides (4.4%), detergents (2.9%), non-opioid medication (55.1%). Given the time series model, poisoning cases are showed a stable trend and forecasts shows around 4 opium and 9 drug poisoning cases in 2025.</span><br> <span style="line-height:14.0pt"><b><span style="color:#24a3a0">Conclusion: </span></b>The high prevalence of drug poisoning, education on proper drug storage and psychological issues is important. Furthermore, considering the high rate of opium poisoning in children under five, social welfare interventions are necessary to identify at-risk children and provide essential family counseling.</span></span></span></div> Child, Epidemiology, Poisoning 0 0 http://caspianjp.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-330-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fatemeh Mollaalinejad ffattememolaalinejad@gmail.com 10031947532846005067 0009-0005-2827-3320 No Department of Health Information Technology, Student Research Committee, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Marzieh Mahmudimanesh m_mahmudi69@yahoo.com 10031947532846005068 10031947532846005068 No Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Ahmad Sadeghi ahmadsadeghi1363@gmail.com 10031947532846005069 10031947532846005069 No Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran Fatemeh Eidi f.eidi8993@gmail.com 10031947532846005070 0009-0008-0594-2685 Yes MSc in Pediatric Nursing, Esfarayen Faculty of Medical Sciences, Esfarayen, Iran