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Objetivo: caracterizar las lesiones no intencionales domésticas en el hogar en niños de 5 a 10 años en dos barrios de Corrientes, Capital en el primer semestre del año 2022. Metodología: estudio observacional, descriptivo, transversal. Muestreo de tipo consecutivo. La muestra total fue de 185 encuestas aplicadas a los cuidadores principales en un período no mayor a 6 meses. Variables: edad del cuidador; sexo del cuidador; nivel educativo del cuidador principal; edad y sexo de niños/as; lesión no intencional y su frecuencia; circunstancias en que ocurren las lesiones no intencionales y modo de actuación ante el hecho de lesión no intencional. Resultados: grupo etario de los cuidadores principales de los niños/as con lesiones no intencionales fueron los adultos jóvenes (78%), siendo el género pre-dominante el femenino (78%); nivel de instrucción más alto obtenido corresponde al terciario incompleto (28%); los niños de 5 años de edad presentaron más lesiones no intencionales (27%), predominan-do el género femenino (57%). Las lesiones ocurrieron principalmente cuando se encontraban jugando (58%) y fueron principalmente las escoriaciones (20%); el modo de actuación más utilizado por los cuidadores principales correspondió a realización de primeros auxilios y posterior traslado al hospital (29%). Conclusiones: las lesiones no intencionales domésticas son muy frecuentes, entre ellas excoriaciones, quemaduras y contusiones. No hay grandes variaciones en sus tipos y frecuencias según el barrio en donde viven los infantes afectados. El modo de actuar más utilizado por el cuidador responsable ante estas lesiones son los primeros auxilios y el traslado a un hospital o cuidados en el hogar sin recurrir a un centro sanitario[AU]
Objectives: to characterize unintentional domestic injuries at home in children from 5 to 10 years old in two neighborhoods of Co-rrientes, Capital in the first semester of 2022. Methodology: obser-vational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Consecutive type sam-pling. The total sample consisted of 185 surveys applied to the main caregivers in a period not exceeding 6 months. Variables: age of the caregiver; caregiver's sex; educational level of the main caregiver; age and sex of children; unintentional injury and its frequency; cir-cumstances in which unintentional injuries occur and mode of ac-tion in the event of unintentional injury. Results: age group of the main caregivers of children with unintentional injuries were young adults (78%), with the predominant gender being female (78%); highest level of education obtained corresponds to incomplete ter-tiary (28%); 5-year-old children presented more unintentional in-juries (27%), with a predominance of the female gender (57%). The injuries occurred mainly when they were playing (58%) and were mainly abrasions (20%); The mode of action most used by the main caregivers corresponded to first aid and subsequent transfer to the hospital (29%). Conclusions: unintentional domestic injuries are very frequent, including abrasions, burns and bruises. There are no great variations in its types and frequencies depending on the neighborhood where the affected infants live. The most used mode of action by the caregiver responsible for these injuries is first aid and transfer to a hospital or home care without resorting to a heal-th center[AU]
Objectivos: caracterizar as lesões domésticas não intencionais em crianças de 5 a 10 anos em dois bairros de Corrientes, Capital, no primeiro semestre de 2022. Metodologia: estudo observacional, descritivo, transversal. Amostragem de tipo consecutiva. A amos-tra total foi composta por 185 inquéritos aplicados aos cuidadores principais num período não superior a 6 meses. Variáveis: idade do cuidador; sexo do cuidador; escolaridade do cuidador principal; idade e sexo das crianças; lesão não intencional e sua frequência; circunstâncias em que ocorrem lesões não intencionais e modo de ação em caso de lesão não intencional. Resultados: a faixa etária dos principais cuidadores de crianças com lesões não intencionais eram adultos jovens (78%), com predomínio do sexo feminino (78%); o maior nível de escolaridade obtido corresponde ao ensino superior incompleto (28%); As crianças de 5 anos apresentaram mais lesões não intencionais (27%), com predominância do sexo feminino (57%). As lesões ocorreram principalmente durante o jogo (58%) e foram principalmente escoriações (20%); O modo de atuação mais utilizado pelos cuidadores principais correspondeu aos primei-ros socorros e posterior transferência para o hospital (29%). Con-clusões: lesões domésticas não intencionais são muito frequentes, incluindo escoriações, queimaduras e contusões. Não há grandes variações em seus tipos e frequências dependendo do bairro onde vivem os lactentes acometidos. A forma de atuação mais utilizada pelo cuidador responsável por estas lesões são os primeiros soco-rros e a transferência para um hospital ou cuidados domiciliários sem recorrer a um centro de saúde. caregivers corresponded to first aid and subsequent transfer to the hospital (29%). Conclusions: unintentional domestic injuries are very frequent, including abrasions, burns and bruises. There are no great variations in its types and frequencies depending on the neighborhood where the affected infants live. The most used mode of action by the caregiver responsible for these injuries is first aid and transfer to a hospital or home care without resorting to a heal-th center.Keywords: unintentional injury, infants, primary caregivers, accidents, home, housing, child, preschool[AU]
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Introduction: Injuries are a major global public health problem. There are very few community-based studies on childhood injury from India in this study, we identified the distribution and risk factors for fall-related child injuries in the Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nādu community. Methodology: A descriptive analysis was done among 710 children of age up to 14 years residing in the Kat-tankulathur region in Tamil Nādu. The appropriate number of samples were recruited using the cluster sam-pling method by dividing the subjects into separate clusters and from each cluster 40 samples were obtained. The information on fall-related injury was collected according to mechanism of ‘injury’ Results: The annual incidence of fall-related injuries was 9.1 %. About 72.3% of children had injuries at home and 36% of the persons had fractures in the upper limb. 42% of children had disability in their hands. The age, gender, education and type of family was significant to injury. Conclusion:Our study reported a higher incidence of Fall injuries in Tamil Nādu when compared other stud-ies done in India. Male children are the most common victims of injury and also identified homes, roads/streets as the most common places for the occurrences of fall injury in children.
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Objective: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of cooking-related child burn injury. Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among a total of 5830 children with their respective caretakers in randomly selected 100 clusters. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. Logistic regression was used to identify the risk factors and adjusted odds ratios were used as measures of effect. Results: The prevalence of cooking-related child burn injury was 6.2% (95% CI: 5.5-6.8). This burden was linked with risk factors such as lower literacy of caretaker, family size, using traditional cook stove, long cooking time, and presence of extra indoor burning events as well as lack of separate kitchen, child supervision, and injury prevention awareness. Conclusion: Children experience a high burden of burn injury. Thus, stakeholders should work to reduce this burden by controlling the aforementioned risk factors.
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ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics of hospitalized unintentional injuries and to provide evidence for formulating injury prevention and control strategies. MethodsDescriptive analysis was conducted on injury information of unintentional injury cases reported from 22 monitoring hospitals during 2017 to 2020 by injury surveillance system. The composition ratio index was used to analyze and explore the distribution（population， time and place）of injuries related to different causes. The disease burden was described by the length of hospital stay and hospitalization cost. ResultsA total of 32 716 hospitalized unintentional injury cases were reported from 22 monitoring hospitals. The male to female ratio was 1.18∶1. The majority of males were aged 15‒64 years and the majority of females were aged over 45 years. The top three causes of injuries were falls， traffic-related and blunt injury. Injuries occurred more frequently in July and August. 42.81% of the cases occurred at home. Fracture cases accounted for 75.79%. The median length of hospital stay was 10 days and the median cost was 15 431.50 yuan. The share of both falls and non-motor vehicle accidents increased year by year. ConclusionFalls among elderly people and road traffic injuries are the main causes of hospitalized unintentional injuries， and sharp or blunt instrument injuries are more severe in the male workforce. Considering high direct and indirect economic losses from injuries， steps should to be taken to improve injury surveillance system and to implement injury prevention and control strategies targeted on key groups and key injuries.
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Objective:To analyze of the clinical characteristics of unintentional injuries among urban and rural children in Suzhou city, aiming to provide a scientific basis for the prevention of unintentional injuries in the region.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional survey. Children in the outpatient and emergency departments of the Children′s Hospital of Soochow University were selected from March 2020 to February 2021, the gender, age, household registration, accident injury time, cause, place and educational intervention needs of the children were collected. The patients were grouped according to gender, ages, seasons and household registrations, the SPSS 21.0 statistical software package was used to analyze the clinical characteristics of accidental injury in children.Results:There were 32 561 children included in the study, including 20 180 males and 12 381 females. The percentage of boy increases with ages ( χ2 = 263.13, P<0.01). Most unintentional injuries occurred at home, 19 117 cases, accounted for 58.9% of total cases. The accidental injury composition ratio of urban children in 0-<1 year group (447 cases), 1-<3 year group (12 392 cases) and 3-<6 year group (9 381 cases) was higher than that of 6-<10 year group (6 931 cases) and 10-<14 year group (3 410 cases)( χ 2 values were 14.69-246.83, all P<0.01); fall was the most common cause of unintentional injuries in children, 12 404 cases, accounted for 38.1% of total cases. The percentage of unintentional injuries of 3-<6 year group in spring was higher than that of 0-<1 year group, 1-<3 year group, 6-<10 year group and 10-<14 year group; the percentage of unintentional injuries of 3-<6 year group in summer was higher than that of 0-<1 year group, 1-<3 year group, 10-<14 year group; the percentage of unintentional injuries of 0-<1 year group in antumn was higher than that of 1-<3 year group, 3-<6 group, 6-<10 year group; the percentage of unintentional injuries of 0-<1 year group in winter was higher than that of 1-<3 year group, 3-<6 year group, 6-<10 year group and 10-<14 year group ( χ2 values were 6.80-310.53, all P<0.01). Parents of 1-<3 year group had high demand for first aid knowledge, and parents of 0-<1 year group had high demand for first aid skills ( χ 2 values were 5.03-821.23, all P<0.01). Conclusions:The prevalence of unintentional injury in Suzhou city has age, season and regional characteristics. This study can provide a scientific basis for the prevention of unintentional injuries in the region.
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@#AIM: To characterize a large cohort of patients presenting to the Department of Ophthalmology in Hunan Children's Hospital for ocular trauma, thus to offer supports for treatment and prevention of ocular trauma in children.<p>METHODS:The retrospective study was conducted between January 2016 and December 2020, and the medical recorded of 2 298 children(2 332 eyes)diagnosed with ocular trauma in the Ophthalmology Department and Ophthalmic Emergency of Hunan Children's Hospital were reviewed. The record data included gender, age, wounded eye, time of day, injury month, cause of injury, zone of injury, types of ocular injury, complications, method of treatment and prognosis of visual acuity. <p>RESULTS: The results showed that 44.26% of ocular trauma occurred in the age of 3-6 years old in children, and 1 718 cases(1 745 eyes)in male children versus 580 cases(587 eyes)in female children, with a male to female ratio of 2.96:1.00. The high incidence months were February and November for pediatric ocular injury. Collisions and falls were the main causes, accounting for 40.95%, following with blunt object injury and sharp object injury, accounting for 40.82%. Eyelid and other accessory organs were the main injury sites(65.40%). After injury, 58.62% of the children were treated with debridement, primary closure or topical administration of eye drops, 38.38% were treated with debridement and suturing, and 3.00% were treated with complex intraocular surgery. Most children patients were difficult to cooperate with the vision examination. Among the children who completed the vision examination, 60.60% showed visual impaired due to eye trauma. And after treatment, their vision improved to varying degrees. The severe impairment of visual acuity was mainly caused by corneal contusion, traumatic cataract, vitreous hemorrhage, bulbar foreign body and rupture of eyeball.<p>CONCLUSION: Pediatric ocular injuries are usually accidental, with an increasing incidence in recent years. The majority of children with ocular trauma are male and preschool children, with generally mild injuries and relatively good visual prognosis. Prevention and education on children's ocular traumas should be emphasized, and timely treatments after injury can effectively reduce the visual damage.
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Objective To understand the epidemiology and trends of of unintentional injury deaths of children 2=16.44 , χ2=5.284 , P＜0.05）. The three leading causes of unintentional injury deaths were drowning (2.30/10000), suffocation (1.90/10000), and traffic accidents (1.42/10 000). Drowning among boys was 8.74 per cent, which was significantly higher than in girls（χ2=9.36，P＜0.05）. Drowning was the leading cause in boys, while suffocation was the leading cause of accidental death in girls. Accidents accounted for 57.49% of all deaths among children aged 1 to 4 years. Suffocation was the leading cause in children <1 year of age, but drowning（38.62%）was more prominent in children 1-4 years of age. Suffocation has high incidence in the winter, and drowning has high incidence in the summer season（P＜0.05）. Conclusions Effective childhood injury prevention may require different prevention policies combination depending on epidemiological characteristics such as genders, age groups，household register and seasons. The prevention programs should be carried especially the floating population.
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Objetivos El objetivo de este estudio es determinar a qué tipo de patologías nos enfrentamos. Utilizamos la Clasificación Internacional de Atención Primaria para asegurar una nomenclatura objetiva y comparable. Métodos Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, observacional y retrospectivo de una muestra de 108102 consultas de atención primaria de pacientes que acudieron a Urgencias de nuestro hospital para evaluar la epidemiología de la atención pediátrica brindada entre 2011 y 2019. Utilizamos el sistema de clasificación diagnóstica ICPC-2. Resultados El número de asistencias fue mayor en enero, febrero y marzo, así como los fines de semana. Tras ser atendidos, el 6,7% de los pacientes ingresaron en nuestro hospital. Las patologías más frecuentes fueron las infecciones del tracto respiratorio superior, gastroenteritis, fiebre y traumatismos / lesiones. Las patologías que con mayor frecuencia dieron lugar a ingresos hospitalarios fueron fiebre, bronquitis, gastroenteritis y vómitos (p> 0,001). En los ingresos hospitalarios de menores de 1 año, la bronquitis fue la patología más frecuente, mientras que entre los de 1 a 6 años fue la gastroenteritis y entre los de 7 a 14 años fue la apendicitis aguda (p <0,001). Conclusiones Las patologías pediátricas suponen un porcentaje importante de las visitas a urgencias, destacando las infecciones del tracto respiratorio superior, las infecciones intestinales y la fiebre. Sería aconsejable incrementar los recursos de personal en los fines de semana. Es necesario enfatizar en la educación sanitaria de la población para ajustar la demanda de asistencia en los servicios públicos. Se requiere más investigación para adaptar mejor la terminología ICPC-2.
Objectives The aim of this study is to determine what type of pathologies we are facing. We use the International Classification of Primary Care to ensure an objective and comparable nomenclature. Methods We carried out a descriptive, observational, and retrospective study of a sample comprising 108102 primary care encounters of patients presenting at our hospital's Emergency Room to assess the epidemiology of the pediatric care provided between 2011 and 2019. We used the ICPC-2 diagnosis classification system. Results The number of attendances was higher in January, February, and March, as well as at weekends. After being seen, 6.7% of patients were admitted to our hospital. The most frequent pathologies were upper respiratory tract infections, gastroenteritis, fever and trauma/injury. Pathologies most frequently resulting in hospital admissions were fever, bronchitis, gastroenteritis and vomiting (p>0.001). In hospital admissions involving patients under 1 year of age, bronchitis was the most frequent pathology, while among those aged between 1 and 6 years, it was gastroenteritis and among those aged between 7 and 14 years it was acute appendicitis (p<0.001). Conclusions Pediatric pathologies account for a significant percentage of visits to the emergency room, highlighting infections of the upper respiratory tract, intestinal infections, and fever. It would be necessary to increase staff resources on the weekends. It is highly recommended to emphasize the health education of the population to adjust the demand for assistance in public services. More research is required to better adapt the ICPC-2 terminology.
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Humans , Male , Female , Infant, Newborn , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Pediatrics , Pediatric Emergency Medicine/statistics & numerical data , Hospitals, General/statistics & numerical data , Respiratory Tract Infections/epidemiology , Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology , Retrospective Studies , Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Fever/epidemiology , Gastroenteritis/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Objective To explore risk factors of unintentional injuries among internal-migrant children. Methods A 1 ∶〗1 matched case-control study was conducted between 332 internal-migrant children with unintentional injuries, based on the principle that same class, same gender and age was no more than two years old. The survey was based on the unified questionnaire. Epi Data 3.1 was used to establish database and SPSS 23.0 was used for univariate analysis and multi-conditional Logistic regression analysis. Results Multi-conditional Logistic regression analysis model indicated that caregiver put pressure on children before exam and the adjusted odd ratio (OR) was 2.086 and 95% confidence interval (CI) was 1.263-3.444, caregiver’s character was extravert type (OR=2.074, 95% CI:1.275-3.372) or middle type (OR=1.796, 95% CI: 1.158-2.784), caregiver’s educational background was illiteracy (OR=1.867, 95% CI: 1.280-2.722) or primary school (OR=2.458, 95% CI: 1.169-5.168), the neurotic behaviors of children (OR=1.466, 95% CI: 1.012-2.124) were risk factors of unintentional injuries among internal-migrant children. Conclusions The characteristics related to internal-migrant children’s caregiver and children’s neurotic behaviors are associated with the occurrence of unintentional injuries. Immediate and effective measures should be taken to ease the high injury prevalence and prevent the unintentional injuries among internal-migrant children.
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Background: Unintentional injuries have become a major noncommunicable disease burden, especially among the adolescents. Objective: The current study was conducted to estimate the effect of different aspects of daily activities of adolescence for sustaining serious unintentional injuries in the past 1 year. Methods: A cross-sectional survey with multistage sampling with validated pretested questionnaire was done among the school-going adolescent boys in Kolkata. Poisson regression was used to model the counts of serious injuries. To account for the excess of zero in the outcome, zero-inflated Poisson regression was performed. Results: Among the participants, 73.5% did not report any serious unintentional injury sustained in the past 1 year, 11.9% reported to have sustained serious unintentional injury once in the past 1 year, and rest had more than one count. Statistically significant higher chance of sustaining an episode of injury was found among frequent users of motorbike (incidence rate ratio [IRR]: 1.183), frequently walking on roads (IRR: 1.910), and frequently crossing major roads on bicycle (IRR: 2.181) were observed. A statistically significant protective rate ratio was also obtained for those frequently obeying traffic signals while crossing roads (IRR: 0.493) and frequent users of bicycles (IRR: 0.384). Significantly lower rate ratio for sustaining a serious injury was observed with frequently getting into fight at home (IRR: 0.343) and getting beaten up at school (IRR: 0.595). Conclusions: The study revealed traveling in a car and obeying traffic rules were protective from sustaining serious injury. However, walking and participation in sports appeared to be risky, especially for sustaining another episode of serious injury.
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Objective To investigate the clinical features of unintentional injuries in children,and to provide the theoretical basis for preventing and intervening the occurrence. Methods We collected the data of children aged from 0 to 14 years old and hospitalized in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University from January 2013 to December 2015. Results There were 2286 cases of children including 1507 boys(65. 92%) and 779 girls(34. 08%). The high incidence age was 1 to 3 years with a total of 896 cases(39. 19%). The first five causes of unintentional injuries were burns/scalds 840 cases(36. 71%),fall/drop 464 cases(20. 30%),blunt force injury 290 cases(12. 68%),foreign bodies(in the esophagus,airway, etc) 253 cases(11. 07%),and sharp object injury 153 cases(6. 68%). The unintentional injuries of different age group were varied,for example,the common causes of 1 to 3 years old group were burns /scalds and for-eign bodies(in the esophagus,airway,etc),and the main injuries in 6 to 14 years old group were fall/drop and blunt force. Furthermore, the proportion of unintentional injuries in rural children was 1547 cases (67. 67%),and in the urban children was 739 cases(32. 33%). Unintentional injury with serious conse-quences included burns/scalds 55 cases(26. 96%),sharp object injury 45 cases(22. 06%),burns/scalds 26 cases (12. 75%),blast injury of 23 cases(11. 27%) and fall/drop 20 cases(9. 80%). Disable/sequel hap-pened in 204 cases(8. 92%). Ten cases died(0. 44%) including fall/drop in 4 cases,traffic accident in 3 cases(30%). Conclusion Young children aged 1 to 3 years are the most vulnerable to unintentional inju-ries. Burns/scalds and foreign bodies( in the esophagus,airway,etc) are the most common causes of injuries, and the boys are more common than girls. Moreover,the incidence rate of unintentional trauma in rural chil-dren was higher than that in the urban children. Unintentional injury complicated serious consequences are burns/scalds,sharp object injury,blast injury and fall/drop. Death cases in the majority are fall/drop and traf-fic accident. The key to reduce the occurrence of unintentional injuries is to strengthen propaganda of preven-tion knowledge about the children′s unintentional injuries.
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Objective To explore risk factors of unintentional injury among left-behind children in a rural poverty county and to provide evidence for injury intervention.Methods 2 909 students,including 1 630 left-behind children,were recruited from a poor counties of five schools by Multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method,and were surveyed applying designed questionnaire,interview method and observation method to collect the data of the injury accidents and related factors in the last one year.Results The incidence of unintentional injury among the left-behind children in rural area was 34.0％,higher than the rate of 27.7％ among non-left-behind children and the difference was statistically significant (c2 =13.541,P＜0.05);in the top five injury type were falling injury (14.0％),burus (5.6％) and sharp instrument injury (3.6％),bite (3.0％),parts (1.6％) among left-behind children.Low age,often miss my mother,fighting in school,outdoor activities,road and traffic state were risk factors for injury of left-behind children.Corcltsion The unintentional injury of left-behind children has become a social problem that can not be ignored,and targeted intervention should be carried out.
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@# Objective To analyze the research status of childhood unintentional injury and provide a foundation for the development of targeted intervention strategies. Methods Bibliometrics were used to analyze 429 literatures of childhood unintentional injury published during 2000~2011. Results The quantity of research literatures didn't form a stable growth. The object, type and location of childhood unintentional injury were non- specific. The research contents mainly involved epidemiological characteristics, affecting factors and prevention methods, but overall designs of research had flaws. Conclusion The research should be carried out targeted and systematically.
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Objective To investigate the association between psychological sub-healthy status and risks on injuries and related predictors among adolescents in China,in order to develop reasonable intervention programs.Methods Adolescents were selected from middle schools and colleges in eight cities.Baseline status on sub-healthy that related to psycho-pathology was measured using the Multidimensional Sub-health Questionnaire of Adolescents (MSQA).Data on Self- or unintentional injuries were collected using a standardized injury surveillance questionnaire every 3 months,for three times (T0,T1,T2 and T3).Results A total of 12 113 students completed the study.Prevalence rates related to self-injury among boys and girls were 19.4％ and 19.9％,respectively.The rates of having more than 4 types of self-injuries in boys and girls were 4.7％ and 4.2％,respectively.Boys had a significantly higher unintentional injury rate than that of girls (62.2％ vs.57.3％ ).The differences in the rates of having more than 4 types of unintentional injury between boys (3.8％) and girls (3.4％) were also statistically significant.Rates on self- and unintentional-injuries increased in T1,T2 and T3 when the psychological symptoms had an increase.Data from Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that the baseline psychological sub-healthy status was a predictive factor for higher risk of self- and unintentional- injuries at each of the follow-up waves.Conclusion Sub-healthy status of psycho-pathology was associated with an increased risk on self-and unintentional injuries among adolescents.Integrative psycho-pathological and behavioralintervention programs might help in reducing the risk of injuries among the Chinese adolescents.
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OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to estimate the cumulative incidence rate (CIR) of unintentional injuries in Korean daily life and to describe the pattern of unintentional injuries. METHODS: The study population was the people who used the National Health Insurance because of injuries (ICD code: S00~T98) during 2006. The stratified sample according to gender, age and the severity of injury (NISS, New Injury Severity Score) was randomly selected. The questions on the questionnaire were developed as a reference for an international classification tool (ICECI, International Classification of External Causes of Injury). The questions included the locations of injury, the mechanisms of injury and the results of injury. Moreover, we used age, gender, region and income variables for analysis. RESULTS: The CIR of unintentional injuries that occurred in daily life for 1 year per 100,000 persons was 17,606, and the CIR of severe injuries was 286. Many injuries were occurred at home (29.6%), public places (19.0%), school (13.7%) and near home (12.0%). The major mechanisms of injuries were slipping (48.8%), contact (14.0%), physical over-exertion (13.8%), and fall (6.6%). Infants and old aged people were vulnerable to injuries, and those who lived rural area and who were in a low income level were vulnerable too. CONCLUSIONS: We signified the risk groups and risk settings of unintentional injuries in Korean daily life. These results could contribute to establishing strategies for injury prevention and implementing these strategies.