بررسی اپیدمیولوژیک صدمات جسمی در مصدومین ناشی از انفجار مین و سایر مهمات جنگی در استان ایلام در بین سالهای 1380 الی 1386

Background: the widespread use of explosive weapons such as mine is causeof various injuries in the victims. it is very important to care about life safetyof the people and military personnel as specialized people in charge of securityof the nation. epidemiological studies in these events are one of the mosteffective ways to manage and reduce the damage caused by the explosionof groups in the border areas contaminated by mines and other explosivematerials. this study deals to evaluate kinds of injuries related to mine andmunitions explosion and their related factors in ilam province - iran.materials and methods: this survey is a cross-sectional (descriptive-analytic)study. data for this study were collected from census of all case records ofinjuries caused by the explosion of mines and other munitions between 2001-2007 that were registered in department of forensic medicine, ilam, iran.descriptive statistics and chi-square, fisher exact, one-way anova andtukey tests were used to describe the results of this study.results: from the total of the 106 injuries over the years there were 95.3%male and the rest were female, that age group of 20 to 40 years had the highestnumber of injuries (47.2 %). also among the injuries, limb defects were 43.4%(ci95%:0.29-0.57), skin lesions were 16% (ci95%:0.01-0.33), eye injurieswere 15.1% (ci95%:0.01-0.32), upper extremity neurovascular defects were3.8% (ci95%:-0.14-0.22), upper and lower limb bone defects were 18.9%(ci95%:0.02-0.36) and of skull bone injuries were 2.8% (ci95%:-0.15-0.21).also, we found significant relationship between of the type of injury and age,gender, occupational status and type of explosives in individuals injured.conclusion: the degree of impairment caused by the explosion of minesand other ammunition in this study is higher than the other similar studies.these events can leave irreparable harm to the physical or mental health ofthe affected people. also ignoring the areas affected can much damage mentalhealth residents, such as farmers, ranchers, and the troops stationed at theborder.