Behavioral Predictors of Injury in School-age Children

Personality of children with accident‐related injuries

“…In contrast to previous studies (Bagley, 1992;Bijur et al, 1988;Manheimer & Mellinger, 1967;Matheny, 1987;Pulkkinen, 1995), the accident-prone children in our study were not more disobedient or aggressive: relevant scales from the Benevolence domain, such as dominance, egocentrism, compliance, or irritability, did not show any deviation. Neither was there any indication for lower emotional stability in our sample, in contrast to what was found in some of the previous studies (Bagley, 1992;Manheimer & Mellinger, 1967;Matheny, 1987).…”

Trauma and Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

“…This has important consequences in terms of the extent of disability that might result. These findings are similar to those of the present study which found that ADHD was more frequent in patients with highenergy injuries and severe trauma, such as Bijur et al 40 identified aggression as opposed to hyperactivity as a cause of injury, but had earlier reported both aggression and hyperactivity as having increased the risk of injury. Aggression was not evaluated as a risk factor in the present study.…”

Unintentional injuries in school-aged children and adolescents: lessons from a systematic review of cohort studies

“…The changing patterns of injuries with age are illustrated in fig 2, and these findings were consistent with those from four papers from older UK cohorts15 22 – 24 with respect to fractures, and by a paper from a middle-income country with respect to lacerations and sprains/strains 10. The latter paper reported that 12% of injuries were near-drownings.…”