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Home accidents are frequent in children and can cause disabling injuries and death. However, confinement can increase the risk of accidents for children, especially living in sometimes unsuitable housing, with sometimes dramatic consequences such as death, loss of mobility and / or other lifelong consequences (1).The aim was to determine the frequency of domestic accidents during confinement. A prospective study to observe domestic accidents in children under 14 was carried out in Kinshasa from March to July 2020. It took place in the emergency department of the Center hospitalier de la Régie des Voies Aériennes (RVA).Children under the age of 15 were included, admitted for an unintentional and unintentional accident with physical consequences, occurring at home or its immediate surroundings. The survey data was analyzed and compared to those produced for the same period a year earlier, in 2019. The chi-square test was used to compare the different proportions and the significance level was 0.05.During the study period, 308 emergency cases were recorded, including 54 cases of domestic accident included, for an incidence of 17.5%. There were 30 boys (55.6%) and 24 girls (44.4%).The mean age was 6.1 ± 2.6 years. In 66.8% of the cases (n = 34), the children had a family rank less than or equal to 4. The number of children living at home Monitoring …