Causes of accidents in children aged 0–14 years and risk factors related to the family environment

Abstract

A case-control study to determine the causes of accidents in children aged 0-14 years and to analyse family environment risk factors was carried out. The variables analysed in the children were age, gender, mechanism and type of accidental injury, number of siblings, birth order of the injured child, history of sibling injury and family type. Variables analysed in the parents were mother's age, history of alcoholism, maternal and paternal education level, time mother spent at home with the child, presence or absence of parents at the time of the accident and parents' occupations. The most important risk factors were gender, time mother spends at home, level of maternal education, paternal alcoholism, birth order, more than five siblings and previous injury to a sibling.

Parental alcohol misuse is a powerful predictor for the risk of traumatic brain injury in childhood

“…Male gender and parental alcohol misuse were risk factors for the occurrence of TBI before the age of 14. Parental alcoholism may be associated with physical abuse or neglect of children, both of which conditions expose children to a risk of injury [3,4]. Violence is a frequent cause of injuries in families with alcohol problems [21] and head injury is the leading cause of death in abused children under 2 years of age [22].…”

“…Parental alcoholism has been reported to correlate positively with children's injuries, abuse and neglect [2][3][4]. However, little is known about parental alcohol misuse and TBI among children or about the alcohol drinking habits of adolescents who have sustained TBI in childhood.…”

Determine the safe transport of dangerous goods route

“…As of today, the main RTA reasons are [5][6][7][8]: 1) wrong human performance (a driver's, a passenger's, pedestrians'); 2) poor road conditions and the speed of the road conditions of the traffic character; 3) a vehicle's technical fault. The statistical data of the RTA were used to develop the classification of the types of the road traffic accidents [5,6,9]: 1) a collision, when moving motor vehicles hit each other or a railway vehicle; 2) a turnover, when a motor vehicle lost stability and turned over.…”

“…According to relationship (8), the matrix of the probability of involvement in the RTA on the junction depending on the time of the day, day of the week and month of the year will have the following form (Table 6). …”

Independent risk factors for injury in pre-school children: three population-based nested case-control studies using routine primary care data

“…Previous studies have identified that individual [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], family [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and community level factors [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]17,[29][30][31][32] contribute to children's risk of injury yet the actual contributions of these factors to the burden of children's injuries in the general population remain unclear. Most studies were conducted in small geographic areas [9,11,13,15,19,22,31] and used only injuries reported to secondary care [9,10,12,13,…”