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Abstract

Study Design

Retrospective chart review.

Objective

Socioeconomic status (SES) greatly impacts one’s health status and the type of trauma that a patient experiences due to increased risk of exposure and varying availability of resources to treat emergent conditions. There is a need for large-scale databases of pediatric facial trauma to identify discrepancies in occurrence and identify risk factors.

Methods

This retrospective examination uses a multi-center database to evaluate pediatric facial trauma patients (n = 644) visiting Atrium Heath Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB) hospital from 2020 to 2022. Data collected included demographic information, past medical and surgical history, trauma history, interventions, and long-term outcomes such as scarring, deformities, and sensory or motor deficits. The number of incidents for each zip code surrounding AHWFB was compared with SES data including unemployment rate, mean household income, and poverty level.

Results

Thirty-five percent of patients sustained a high-energy injury, and 65% sustained a low-energy injury. Within the surrounding counties of AHWFB, there were more incidents of pediatric facial trauma in areas with greater rates of poverty (P = 0.006). Additionally, there were more incidents due to high-energy injuries in areas with lower income (P = 0.044) and more poverty (P = 0.002). Specifically, motor vehicle accidents were more common in areas with lower income (P = 0.017) and more poverty (P = 0.001).

Conclusions

These findings in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina are consistent with previous research of SES’s effect on health inequalities and serve as evidence of the need to take steps to prevent pediatric facial trauma in areas of low SES.

Keywords

socioeconomic status pediatric facial trauma

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