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{"title":"US States with poor social health outcomes and more firearms have more morbidity due to mass shootings.","authors":"Tony Lum, Alex Huang, Megan E Paul, Brian A Coakley","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1871","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1871","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mass shootings represent a persistent public health crisis. Prior studies have linked social determinants of health (SDOH) to the phenomenon of gun violence, but there remain limited analyses on mass shooting events specifically.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mass shooting events from 2014-2019 were recorded from the Gun Violence Archive. State-level data regarding population, ATF registered weapons, federal firearm licensees and several SDOHs (poverty, unemployment and educational attainment) were collected from publicly-available US governmental databases. Giffords Law Center rankings were used to assess the relative strictness of each state's gun laws. Gun ownership rates were obtained from the RAND Corporation. Bivariate analyses compared each SDOH, as well as ATF registered weapons, Giffords Center ranking and gun ownership rates, to the death rate, injury rate, and combined injury/death rate from mass shootings in each state. All associations were evaluated via Pearson's Rho. Slope and p-values were analyzed, with a threshold significance value of p less than 0.05.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Unadjusted analysis revealed poor mental health, decreased educational attainment and increased unemployment to all be associated with an increased risk of mass shooting-related injury or death. Adjusted analysis revealed fewer firearm regulations, higher gun ownership, lack of handgun magazine restrictions and lack of long-gun registration requirements were associated with an increased risk of mass-shooting death. Similarly, adjusted analysis revealed lack of handgun permit requirements to be associated with both an increased risk of mass shooting-related injury and combined risk of injury/death.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study revealed associations between multiple SDOH and firearm restrictions with morbidity due to mass shooting events.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 2","pages":"125-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142482434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving motorcyclist safety through hearing in all directions: survey results concerning a novel protective helmet with earpieces.","authors":"Felipe Morales V, Yixin Wang, Ken C Pohlmann, Rodrigo Posada, Adolfo Vargas, Jose M Ramirez, Alejandra Bejarano, Eric Anderson, David C Schwebel","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1891","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Every year over 200,000 motorcyclists are killed globally. One poorly understood risk factor for motorcycle crashes is the role of motorcyclists' ability to hear traffic and other sounds around them in all directions. Most motorcycle helmets protect the head and permit vision in the forward direction, but they impair the wearer's ability to hear. This study evaluated user perceptions of Protective Helmet with Earpieces Equipped, a novel system that affixes technology onto existing motorcycle helmets to allow motorcyclists to better hear the surrounding environment in all directions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>59 Colombian traffic police agents who rode motorcycles daily completed self-report surveys about their traditional motorcycle helmet, used a Protective Helmet with Earpieces Equipped helmet for two months, and then completed a follow-up survey. We tested two hypotheses: (a) at follow-up compared to baseline, motorcyclists would report decreases in perceived safety, comfort, and ability to detect sounds with their traditional helmet, as well as increased fatigue and stress from motorcycling with their traditional helmet, and (b) at follow-up, motorcyclists would report high perceived safety and perceived importance of hearing traffic sounds in all directions while motorcycling. Wilcoxon signed-rank test evaluated hypotheses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants rated perceived safety while using their traditional helmet to be significantly lower after using the Protective Helmet with Earpieces Equipped compared to before using it (Z=-3.5, p less than .001). There were no changes in other variables assessed. Following use of the new helmet, participants reported greatly improved safety (M=4.56, SD=0.54, where 4=safer and 5=substantially safer) and perceived the importance of hearing traffic sounds in all directions as high.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Improved auditory perception could increase motorcyclist safety. Participating traffic agents felt the Protective Helmet with the Earpieces Equipped greatly improved their ability to hear and improved their motorcycling safety. Perceived safety while using their traditional helmet decreased following use of the alternative.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 2","pages":"89-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142514218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of neutrophile-to-lymphocyte ratio and lipid profile in non-violent suicide attempters: a mechanistic study.","authors":"Sajjad Salari, Maryam Bagheri","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1905","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1905","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Suicide is one of the most common causes of juvenile death. Screening suicide risk is quite challenging and even more difficult in subjects who have no psychiatric disorder or other suicide risk factors in their medical history. To date, the association of serum lipid profile and suicidal risk has been evaluated in patients with different psychiatric disorders, yielding conflicting results. Here, we aimed to investigate the lipid panel and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in the sera of people with a first episode of suicide attempt in western Iran.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 159 suicide attempters and 186 volunteers without history of suicide, aged 18-35 years, were evaluated in this experiment. Blood samples were collected between 8-10 AM and kept at 37 °C for blood clotting. We then analyzed the concentration of various lipid markers, including triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), using a series of enzymatic reactions. Additionally, we determined the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) by dividing the total number of neutrophils by the total number of lymphocytes after conducting peripheral blood cell counts.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The concentration of TG was 94.2±5.8 mg/dL in males and 92.3±5.3 mg/dL in females. TC was 136.3±3.6 mg/dL in males and 152.7±4.4 in females, with a significant decrease in comparison with the control subjects (p less than 0.0001). NLR was 4.34±0.9 with a significant increase compared with the controls (P less than 0.002). (TG), (TC) and (LDL) levels in suicide attempters were significantly lower than in the control groups. Nevertheless, serum (HDL) levels in male and female suicide attempters were significantly higher than in the control group. Furthermore, NLR was significantly lower in the subjects with suicide attempts compared with the controls.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Lower concentrations of (TG), (TC) and (LDL) along with higher NLR were associated with non-violent suicide attempts. These findings might be an effective tool in screening suicide risk in young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 2","pages":"95-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142514216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pediatric patients with facial fractures: a retrospective study.","authors":"Suchetana Goswami","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1835","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Epidemiology of maxillofacial injuries vary depending on geographic location, culture and socioeconomic condition. This study assessed etiology and pattern of facial fractures in children reported at Burdwan Dental College and Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Clinical files of 206 children with facial fractures were evaluated retrospectively. Diagnosis of fractures were confirmed by radiographic examination. Study period was from July 2018 to June 2022. Data collected were age and sex of the patient, site of fracture, and etiology of trauma. Descriptive statistics were used for statistical analysis with a P-value less than 0.05.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were 127 (61.7%) males and 79 (38.3%) females with a male to female ratio of 1.6:1. Within the study sample, the majority of facial fractures (n= 146, 70.9%) belonged to 6-to-9-year age group. Overall, falls (44.2%) and motor vehicles accidents (31.5%) were the two leading causes of trauma. Mandible fracture was the most common, accounting for 72.8% of cases. 74 patients (35.9%) with facial fracture had dental injuries.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Male predominance in facial fracture is seen. With age, frequency of facial fractures tends to increase. Falls are the main cause of facial fracture and mandible is the most common anatomic location.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 1","pages":"71-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684848/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors affecting the spiritual rehabilitation of people affected by natural disasters: a systematic review.","authors":"Bayram Nejati-Zarnaqi, Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh, Sanaz Sohrabizadeh, Mohtasham Ghaffari, Siamak Sabour, Fatemeh Nouri, Reza Mohammadi","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1877","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1877","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Every year, natural disasters in many countries lead to the destruction of infrastructure, loss of assets, and harm to the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of people. The attention of policymakers and the media is mostly focused on the reconstruction of damaged buildings and the physical rehabilitation and recovery of the injured, while the spiritual rehabilitation of the people affected is often neglected. This study aims to identify the factors influencing the spiritual rehabilitation of people affected by natural disasters.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study was conducted using a systematic literature review following the PRISMA guidelines. Relevant studies were extracted from data sources, including MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science, Google Scholar, Embase, ProQuest, PsycInfo, Scopus, IranMedex, SID, and ISC. Systematic review studies, key journals, and conference proceedings related to the factors affecting the spiritual rehabilitation of individuals after natural disasters from January 1, 2020 to March 31, 2022 were included. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the obtained data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Initially, 1,753 studies were identified based on the initial search, and eventually, 22 final studies were included in the study. Based on the thematic analysis results, the factors influencing the spiritual rehabilitation of people affected by natural disasters were classified into four main themes and eleven sub-themes. The main themes included communication with God, strengthening religious beliefs, social participation, and meaning-making. The sub-themes included praying, using supplication, reading the holy book, praising God, believing in the afterlife, understanding the position and characteristics of the world, understanding the divine, participating in religious ceremonies, membership in supportive groups, the meaning of suffering and adversity, and the meaning of death.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of this study demonstrate that the connection with the divine (God), strengthening religious beliefs, social participation, and meaning-making are influential factors in the spiritual rehabilitation of affected people after natural disasters. Incorporating these factors in the spiritual counseling and care of the affected people can improve their spiritual health after encountering the destructive effects of natural disasters. These findings can provide valuable insights for managing natural disasters through a holistic approach to the health of affected people, and can guide caregivers in implementing spiritual rehabilitation interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 2","pages":"159-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142482433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the impact of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety symptoms in female victims of domestic violence.","authors":"Malihe Shirzadfard Jahromi, Masoume Ghazanfarpour, Aliakbar Haghdoost, Atefeh Ahmadi","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1842","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i2.1842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the effects of CPT on PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms in female victims of domestic violence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A two-arm randomized clinical trial was conducted in Bandar-Abbas involving 62 female victims of domestic violence referred from private gynecology and obstetrics clinics. Initial screening for domestic violence was based on the World Health Organization violence questionnaire. Participants were randomly assigned to either a control group (n=32) or an intervention group (n=28) for a study duration of six months in 2022. Twelve group CPT sessions were conducted. The domestic violence questionnaire, Beck's Depression Inventory, Beck's Anxiety Inventory, and the Impact of Event Scale-Revised were completed in three time points: pre-test, post-test, and follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of depression, PTSD, and domestic violence (P less than .001) between the two groups; however, no significant difference was found in anxiety scores (P greater than .050).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CPT is recommended for female victims of domestic violence to reduce symptoms of depression, PTSD, and domestic violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 2","pages":"147-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142565419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Readiness to manage domestic violence among medical interns - an observational study in a medical college and hospital in India.","authors":"Rumelika Kumar, Lina Bandyopadhyay, Monalisha Sahu, Rabindranath Roy, Bobby Paul, Dipankar Jana, Shuvajit Roy","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1867","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1867","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Domestic violence is a deeply entrenched issue in Indian society, with global implications, especially for women's physical and mental health. Healthcare providers play important role in early identification and support of the victims. Medical interns, the future generation of Health care professionals, often acting as primary caregivers are uniquely positioned and expected to recognize and assist victims. This study aims to evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, practices, and readiness to manage domestic violence and its associating factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study was conducted among 157 medical interns at a Medical college and hospital in West Bengal, India, from December 2022 to February 2023. Simple random sampling was done. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, Medical Intern Readiness to manage domestic violence scale (MIREDS), validated after adoption from Physician Readiness to manage Intimate partner violence scale (PREMIS). Ethical approval was obtained, and participants gave informed written consent for inclusion. Satisfactory threshold was determined to be more than 50 percent. Data analysis was performed using MS Excel and SPSS software, including descriptive and inferential statistics, with a significance level of p less than 0.05, along with logistic regression analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Only 45.2% of medical interns demonstrated satisfactory knowledge, 54.8% had a satisfactory attitude. Most interns (91.7%) exhibited poor practice in dealing with domestic violence cases, only 31.2% considered themselves ready to manage domestic violence cases. Interns who attend more patients was found to have better attitude. Positive associations were found between knowledge, attitude, and readiness to manage domestic violence cases among doctors .</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A substantial proportion of medical interns demonstrated inadequate knowledge, negative attitudes, and poor practice and inadequate readiness to manage domestic violence. Comprehensive training and education with cultural sensitivity training along with more practical exposures are in need to address this issue properly.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 1","pages":"31-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684842/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139984740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Top journals publishing articles related to drowning prevention: a bibliometric analysis 2000-2022.","authors":"David F Zane, David W Lawrence, Barbara Cosart, Molly B Johnson","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1840","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1840","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Drowning is a worldwide problem. Scholarly publications about drowning prevention play a crucial role in bringing data to policy makers and prevention specialists. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of published articles related to unintentional drowning prevention included in the comprehensive, curated injury literature database, SafetyLit®.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thorough searches of drowning-related search terms in English and non- English translations identified articles published in journals between 2000 and 2022.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a 3-fold increase in publications between 2000 and 2022, with 2,937 articles published in 941 journals. Articles were published in 20 different languages. Five journals published 16% of the articles and sixty-one top journals published 50% of the articles. Eighty-nine percent of the top journals were included in PubMed; 82% were indexed in MEDLINE®; and professional areas of expertise of article authors spanned 18 categories.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study can facilitate journal selection for drowning researchers to ultimately increase the publication of scientific literature globally.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 1","pages":"49-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visualization of the field of knowledge in sexual violence: a scientometric analysis based on citespace.","authors":"Ali Hamidi, Abdolrasool Khosravi, Roghayeh Hejazi, Fatemeh Torabi, Allahkaram Akhlaghi","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1862","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1862","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sexual violence (SV) is a serious public health problem affecting millions of people each year. The main aim of this article is to provide a large-scale snapshot of the field of knowledge in SV research using a scientometric approach.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Documents were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Then, a scientometric study was carried out on a sample of 65,610 documents. Co-citation and co-occurrence measures have been calculated and related networks have been drawn using Citespace and Biblioshiny software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The main findings indicate that research in SV has increased significantly in recent years. On the other hand, the publication of about one-third of these documents by a single author is due to the special nature of this topic and its taboo in many societies. In addition, a large number of multimedia documents demonstrate the role and importance of multimedia resources in SV studies. Despite the attention to SV research by poor or developing countries to research in the field of SV, 95% of the documents have been published by 20 developed countries. Additionally, the general research approach has changed from criminology to psychology.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Therefore, it seems that the discussion of psychological disorders in the occurrence of sexual violence reveals a new approach to SV. The concepts related to SV have been linked to broader areas than in the past. This, along with emphasizing prevention topics in the long term, will increase awareness of SV and reduce the possibility of abuse of vulnerable people.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 1","pages":"9-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138479694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time indicators of pre-hospital emergency missions in Qazvin province in 2021-2022.","authors":"Najmeh Chegini, Sajad Noorian, Mojtaba Senmar, Soheil Soltani, Mostafa Amiri, Fatemeh Rashvand, Mohadese Aliakbari","doi":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1844","DOIUrl":"10.5249/jivr.v16i1.1844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pre-hospital emergency has a crucial role in providing timely care for patients. In this system, seconds and minutes mean the difference between life and death. Considering the importance of the role of pre-hospital emergency in providing services to different patients and the necessity of continuous evaluation of this system, the present study was conducted to investigate time indicators in pre-hospital emergency missions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2022 in Qazvin province, Iran. The research population was all the calls made to pre-hospital emergency bases in Qazvin province The required information, including time indicators and demographic characteristics of the patient, was obtained using the electronic registration system (Asayar). Data were Analysis using descriptive statistics and SPSS 20 software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of the 35,943 patients admitted to the hospital, 20,915 were male while the remaining were female. The mean age of the patients was 44.09 ± 21.82 years. Accidents (29.41%) were the most common reason for contacting the pre-hospital emergency. In all transfer missions, the mean delay time (0:02:23 ± 0:03:33), response time (0:15:02 ± 0:09:42), the time on the scene (0:18:33 ± 0:11:10), total run time (0:54:02 ± 0:25:20), transport time (0:20:25 ± 0:16:49), round trip time (1:32:43 ± 1:08: 43).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of the present study provided valuable information about the variety and number of missions in a pre-hospital emergency. The results showed that some indicators are within the standard range and some indicators are far from other regions of the country and the world. Increasing the number of bases, increasing the number of ambulances, and Implementation of continuous training courses for personnel can improve time indicators and increase the quality of service to different types of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":73795,"journal":{"name":"Journal of injury & violence research","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11684843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50159439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}