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A Retrospective Study to Compute the Prevalence of Pneumonia and its Associated Risk Factors among Children in Selected Tertiary Care Hospital, Kelambakkam, Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India

A Retrospective study to compute the prevalence and associated risk factors of pneumonia among children at selected tertiary care hospital, Kelambakkam, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu. The objectives are to determine the prevalence of pneumonia among children, to find out the association between selected risk factors and the occurrence of pneumonia among children. The convenience sampling was used. Data collected from the medical records from January 2017 to December 2018. Totally 312 pediatric cases were admitted for respiratory infection among which 49 cases diagnosed with pneumonia. The data was collected by using structured selected risk factors tool. The study results shows that the prevalence of pneumonia was high in the age group of 7 – 12 years and it was highly noted among females. The occurrence of pneumonia was high in rural area. The study results revealed that the prevalence of pneumonia is high mainly in monsoon season and also shows that the prevalence is more among children not vaccinated with flu and PCV vaccine. The study also revealed that the prevalence of pneumonia among children (0 – 18 years) from January 2017 to December 2018 at selected tertiary care hospital, Kelambakkam, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India was 16% and it also shows that there was a significant association between the selected risk factors such as age, gender, area of residence, season, immunization status and the occurrence of pneumonia at P < 0.05 level.