Unintentional injuries
Unintentional injuries among children aged 1–5 years: understanding the burden, risk factors and severity in urban slums of southern India
... Parental behavior is another important determinant of UI risk. Although it was beyond the scope of our study, it is important to determine if parents will be willing to implement any intervention and also determine if ...
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Prevention of Unintentional Injuries: A Global Role for Pediatricians
... childhood injuries, the relative preva- lence of unintentional injury continues to plague the health and well-being of children ...to unintentional injuries than adults and the societal costs ...
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A comparative study of unintentional injuries among schooling left-behind, migrant and residential children in China
... experience injuries, but a study in South Asia indicated that girls were easier to suffer from unintentional injury, especially for burns due to cooking ...s unintentional injury risks ...for ...
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Vulnerability to unintentional injuries associated with land-use activities and search and rescue in Nunavut, Canada
... instance, unintentional injury rates are over three times the Canadian ...of injuries on the land in Nunavut. We specifically examine unintentional injuries on the land (outside of hamlets) ...
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Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood
... childhood unintentional injury by improving maternal psy- chological ...increased unintentional in- jury rates (Bijur 1986; Bijur 1988a; Bijur 1988b; Bussing 1996) and parenting programmes, through reducing ...
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Unintentional injuries in children with disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of unintentional injuries, but quantitative syntheses of findings from previous studies have not been ...of unintentional injuries among children when they are compared to children without ...
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Ecological approaches to the prevention of unintentional injuries
... Background: Injury as a cause of significant morbidity and mortality has remained fairly stable in countries with developed economies. Although injury prevention often is conceptualised as a biomedical construct, such a ...
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Unintentional injuries and home safety guidance
... Scotland, unintentional injury is a common cause of emergency admission to hospital for ...of unintentional injuries in children occur in those under ...
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Prediction of posttraumatic stress in fathers of children with chronic diseases or unintentional injuries: a six-months follow-up study
... with injuries there were no differences with regard to father's marital and socioeconomic status, father's educa- tion, child's gender, and child's ...with unintentional injuries at both Time 1 and ...
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<p>Unintentional injuries and socio-psychological correlates among school-going adolescents in four ASEAN countries</p>
... for unintentional injuries in adolescents may include, sociodemographic variables, such as male sex and lower economic status and socio-psychological factors such as psychological dis- tress, alcohol and ...
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Age, Sex, and Genetic and Environmental Effects on Unintentional Injuries in Young and Adult Twins
... their injuries during the last 12 months, which is the usual follow-up time in injury ...their injuries within 1 year (Elander et ...of injuries in the ...
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Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: a qualitative study
... Prior to contacting or approaching parents, researchers checked that they would add to the maximum variation sampling frame [19]. The sampling frame was developed to ensure a range of participants were included in the ...
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Understanding pathways to social inequalities in childhood unintentional injuries: findings from the UK millennium cohort study
... It is also important to recognise that outcome measures (UI for which medical attention was sought) were reported by the parent, predominantly mothers and may be subject to recall bias [48, 49]. Studies seeking to ...
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Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among the under 15s
... There is evidence from one comparative study in the USA (+) that window guard legislation in New York City reduces child injury related to falls from buildings by about half, despite greater numbers at risk as residents ...
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Risk Factors for Unintentional Injuries in Children: Are Grandparents Protective?
... One limitation from the office-based approach is that there could have been some injury-related hospitaliza- tions and emergency department visits that never came to the attention of the pediatric office and would be ...
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Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres
... Child unintentional injuries are an important global public health problem and are a major cause of mortality and disability in the under-fives (Peden M et ...childhood injuries is greatest in low ...
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Pattern of fall injuries in Pakistan: the Pakistan National Emergency Department Surveillance (Pak-NEDS) study
... all injuries, the National Health Survey of Pakistan (NHSP 1990-94) found fall- related injuries as the most common mechanism of unintentional injuries among children under five years of age ...
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Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population
... endorses use of the Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure violence-prevention program. This program provides coun- seling suggestions concerning a num- ber of violence-related topics and parent information brochures speci ...
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An overview of geospatial methods used in unintentional injury epidemiology
... It is fundamentally important that injury epidemio- logical studies begin to define spatial patterns statisti- cally to determine whether observed clustering patterns occur by chance, or if there are statistically ...
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Caregivers’ Perception of Unintentional Child and Adolescent Injuries in Enugu, Nigeria
... of unintentional child and adolescent injuries in ...of injuries in their wards within the past 12months. Most of the injuries occurred at home (334; ...that injuries in children were ...
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