Behavioral characteristics of accident proneness and its influencing factors among children and juveniles / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the behavior characteristics of children or juveniles with accident proneness and to explore the influencing factors of children and juveniles accident proneness in behavior.Methods The study was carried out bv case-control method,and 1 601 children and juveniles from a rural area of hunan province were investigated with homemade general injury questionnaire.Accident proneness children or juveniles screened out from cross-sectional studv were selected into research group,while uninjured children or juveniles whose gender,age and grade were the same with the research group were included into control group with 11 matched.Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist was used to evaluate and compare these two groups of children and juveniles' behavior.Results 147 accident proneness children and juveniles were screened out from the study and the accident proneness incidence of children and juveniles in rural areas was 9.42％.The total score and each factor score of behavior problem and behavioral problems detection rate iu research group were higher than that of the control group and there were statistically significant (P＜0.01).Multivariate analysis showed that attention problem (OR=1.110,95％ CI =1.041-1.185) and aggressive behavior (OR=1.123,95％ CI =1.068-1.181) were risk factors of accident proneness.Conclusion Accident proneness children and juveniles' behavior is different from the uninjured,which is a risk factors of accident proneness.