A Comparison of School Injuries Between Children With and Without Disabilities

Unintentional injuries in children with disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…From 24,898 titles and abstracts, we identified 15 studies (Dunne et al 1993; Leland et al 1994; Sherrard et al 2002; Xiang et al 2005; Slayter et al 2006; Chen et al 2007; Mann et al 2007; Lee et al 2008; Sinclair and Xiang 2008; Raman et al 2009; Ramirez et al 2010; Brenner et al 2013; Tsang et al 2012; Zhu et al 2012; Othman and Kendrick 2013) eligible for inclusion (Fig. 1).…”

“…Ten studies used a cross-sectional design (Brenner et al 2013; Chen et al 2007; Lee et al 2008; Mann et al 2007; Raman et al 2009; Sinclair and Xiang 2008; Slayter et al 2006; Tsang et al 2012; Xiang et al 2005; Zhu et al 2012), two studies used a case–control design (Dunne et al 1993; Othman and Kendrick 2013), and three studies were cohort studies (Leland et al 1994; Ramirez et al 2010; Sherrard et al 2002). Sample sizes ranged from 186 to 8,456,144 with a total sample size of 9,581,553, including 83,286 children with disabilities (not including three studies (Brenner et al 2013; Sherrard et al 2002; Ramirez et al 2010) in which the authors did not provide the exact number of individuals with disability). Across the 15 studies, 2,032,685 children were injured (including 22,306 injured children with disabilities).…”

“…A gender difference in injury risk existed and the pooled injury risk for males with disability was a little higher than that for females with disability (OR = 1.20, 95 % CI 1.06–1.36). Most studies used a broad age range, generally from 0 to 18 years, however three studies focused on young children (Leland et al 1994; Lee et al 2008; Othman and Kendrick 2013) and five studies focused on school-age children (Sherrard et al 2002; Raman et al 2009; Xiang et al 2005; Ramirez et al 2010; Tsang et al 2012) (Table 1). We also included two studies (Slayter et al 2006; Ramirez et al 2010) which had small percentages of young adults ages 19 and 20, because these young adults could not be separated in the analysis from those under 18 years.…”

“…Most studies used a broad age range, generally from 0 to 18 years, however three studies focused on young children (Leland et al 1994; Lee et al 2008; Othman and Kendrick 2013) and five studies focused on school-age children (Sherrard et al 2002; Raman et al 2009; Xiang et al 2005; Ramirez et al 2010; Tsang et al 2012) (Table 1). We also included two studies (Slayter et al 2006; Ramirez et al 2010) which had small percentages of young adults ages 19 and 20, because these young adults could not be separated in the analysis from those under 18 years. Geographically, the WHO region of the Americas was heavily represented, with ten studies in USA and one in Canada (Raman et al 2009), and the remaining four studies were from the WHO Asia and Western Pacific region (China, Hong Kong, Iraq, and Australia) (Othman and Kendrick 2013; Sherrard et al 2002; Tsang et al 2012; Zhu et al 2012).…”

Adolescents with disability report higher rates of injury but lower rates of receiving care: findings from a national school-based survey in New Zealand

“…Research overseas has documented increased risk particularly relating to falls,5 10 burns,6 motor vehicles7 and assaults 9 31. Previous research often included preschool and primary school children in their study populations,5–10 24 32 and some studies focused on specific types of disability32 or injury 6 7…”