The Risk Factors of Acute Appendicitis in Childern at Selected Hospitals in Mogadisho Somalia

Abstract

Appendicitis is one of most common surgical emergencies, in its disease course, the appendix becomes inflamed and swollen as intestinal bacteria multiply in the lumen, recruiting white blood cells and forming pus. The objective of this study was to determine the Risk factors of acute appendicitis at selected hospitals (Digfer, Shafi, and Medina) in Mogadishu Somalia.
The study design was descriptive, quantitative design and were conducted at selected hospitals. The sample size was 192 cross sectional, draw from 384 by using Keisha and Leslie formula for calculating sample size. Administrated closed-ended questionnaire was used as data collection tools and the study employed statistical package for social science SPSS version (20.0) for data analyzing and data was present descriptive statistics graphs and frequencies tables.

The study found 192 patients who had appendicitis and the majority those patients 81(42.2%) were between the age of 14-18, 68(35.4%) were between the age of 10-13, 26(13.5%) were between 6- 9 years and the 17(8.9%) were between the age 0-5 also the results shown that 126(65.6%) of the patients were male while female only formed 66(34.4%). And the Majority of the patients. Our study found, most responders were eaten low fiber diet and drink ground water, and also majority of the responders didn’t diagnosed by histopathology due to cost.

The people eat high fiber diet and drinking clean water to prevent appendicitis, the patients feel lower abdomen to visit the health centers and the government provide free health care to low income people.