Objective@#To explore the
association between
incidence of
injuries and
health related behavior among middle
school students in
China, to provide evidence for
injury prevention.@*
Methods@#A
questionnaire survey was conducted among 1 067
students who were selected from Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces by using stratified random
cluster sampling method.
Chi square test and multiple
Logistic regression analyses were used to analyze
incidence of
injuries and
health related behavior.@*Results@#The
prevalence of
self injury among middle
school students in five provinces was 11.0%, the
prevalence of intentional
injury was 13.2%. Multiple
Logistic regression analyses showed that attempting
smoking, not
eating breakfast every day, having a low
mood more than 2 weeks in the past 6 months were positively correlated with
self injury ( OR=3.02, 2.04, 4.30, P <0.01) after adjusting for region, and the
smoking attempt
behavior was positively correlated with intentional
injury ( OR=2.03, P <0.05) after adjusting for region, urban and rural, residence condition, weekly allowance condition.@*Conclusion@#
Smoking attempt
behavior could be viewed as a
shared predictor for both
self injury and intentional
injury behavior among middle
school students,
smoking control intervention should be carried out actively among
students.