Multiple Risk Behavior and Injury

Abstract

Gradients in risk for youth injury increased in association with numbers of risk behaviors reported in every country examined. This cross-cultural finding indicates that the issue of multiple risk behavior, as assessed via an additive score, merits attention as an etiological construct. This concept may be useful in future injury control research and prevention efforts conducted among populations of young people.

Epidemiology of Maxillofacial Fractures at a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia: A Retrospective Study

“…Similar findings have been reported in other studies [5, 10, 16, 18, 27–29, 31, 38]. Higher susceptibility of this age group to MFF may be due to their involvement in sports and other physical activities or in psychosocial problems that may potentiate risk-taking behaviors, hence making them more prone to injuries [40]. In this study, the age of patients was found to be associated with sites of fracture.…”

Physical and Emotional Health Problems Experienced by Youth Engaged in Physical Fighting and Weapon Carrying

“…Study findings were consistent with a Problem Behaviour Model proposed by Jessor [12], [21], [22], [23]. The Problem Behaviour model suggests that behaviours represent a constellation of symptoms for a troubled adolescent which contribute to a trajectory of poor health outcomes.…”

Peer Review #1 of "Extent, patterns and demographic correlates for physical fighting among school-attending adolescents in Namibia: examination of the 2013 Global School-based Health Survey (v0.1)"

“…In line with previous literature in low-income countries, we identified the following factors in association with increased physical fighting: having a suicide plan, anxiety, truancy, food deprivation, being bullied, early sexual debut and cigarette smoking (Rudatsikira, Muula & Siziya, 2008b;Rudatsikira et al, 2008;Celedonia et al, 2013). Previous studies have demonstrated clustering of risky behaviors, such as truancy, cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse, which may explain the association of physical fighting with suicide planning and truancy (Petridou et al, 1997;Pickett et al, 2002;Acquah et al, 2014a;Yang et al, 2017). Being bullied has been previously shown in association with violence and physical fighting, indicating that those individuals who are victimized are more likely to perpetuate that violence elsewhere (Rudatsikira et al, 2007a;Pickett et al, 2012).…”