Incidence and determinants of severity of unintentional injuries among students of private schools in Dubai: a cross-sectional study

A cross-sectional study was performed on a student population in grades 7-12 in 10 private schools in Dubai in the academic year 2012/13. The study was in two phases. The first was used to estimate incidence rate of injuries, where the total injuries that took place in the schools in 2012 was divided by the total student population in the studied schools in the same year multiplied by 1000. The second was to study the determinants of severity through randomly selecting 1000 cases of injuries. A self-administered questionnaire was given to the participants after obtaining verbal consent. Sociodemographic characteristics showed that most [74.2%] of the students in this study were male and about half [57.3%] were aged 12-14 years. The incidence rate of injuries was 297.7/1000, and most of the injuries [88.9%] were mild. Poor school safety was blamed for most of the injuries, and falls were the most frequent type of injury

influence of mothers of the preschool child's acceptance or refusal of day care centre

Child's acceptability or rejection of the day care centre affects his personality and attitudes towards school afterwards. Specific information regarding family relationship is required for the rewarding management of the sensitive preschool child. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of maternal factors on child refusal or acceptance of the day care centre. A random sample of 150 preschool children aged 3-4 years was taken from 3 day care centres in Alexandria. The mother of each child was privetly interviewed either at school or at home, using a pre-designed questionnaire. The results of the study show that the education of the mother and her employment status affected her reason for sending children to day care centre. Education of the children was the major reason given by most of the mothers. Working mothers considered the day care centre as a safe place to keep the child while they go to work, while nonworking mothers send children to day care centre to keep them away from her for few hours. Educated mothers were more interested in the social life of their children as they send their children to day care centre to socialize and play with other children. The results also show that when the mother had a large number of children they preferred to send the child to day care centre to keep him away from her for few hours. According to the reported results, it is concluded that children of nonworking mothers tend to refuse day care centre while children of educated working mothers were more-likely to accept it. This was a result of the maternal encouragement of the child to attend the day care centre which was reflected on a positive attitude. Illiterate mothers used the day care centre as a punishment and as a result, their children were either passive or rejecting day care centre