School Injury Among Ottawa‐Area Children: A Population‐Based Study

Josse, Jonathan M.; Mackay, Michael J; Osmond, Martin H.; Macpherson, Alison

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00375.x

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“…The study findings align with international literature and suggest that boys sustain more school injuries than girls of similar age groups [9,11,15]. Boys have a significantly higher injury rate for all mechanisms of injury with the exception of injuries sustained while walking, and injuries occurring in sports areas.…”

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“…School-related injury is a major contributor to paediatric-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions; where the majority of the reported injuries were bruises, sprain/strains, and open wounds to the upper extremities, lower extremities and head, overwhelmingly sustained by boys, and mostly occurring during organized sports and recreational activities [5][6][7][8][9][10]. Injury studies conducted in the United States and Canada confirmed that school injuries accounted for almost 10 to 20% of the overall burden of child injury, costing billions of dollars in hospitalizations and other estimated health care expenditures [3,6,9,10,11].…”

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Child school injury in Lebanon: A study to assess injury incidence, severity and risk factors

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Background School-based injuries represent a sizeable portion of child injuries. This study investigated the rates of school-based injuries in Lebanon, examining injury mechanisms, outcomes and associated risk factors. Methods Data were prospectively collected by intern school nurses at 11 private schools for the 2018-2019 academic year. Descriptive and inferential analyses were performed. Chisquare comparisons were conducted to determine the significance of any differences in injury rates between boys and girls for each category of school.

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Child school injury in Lebanon: A study to assess injury incidence, severity and risk factors

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“…The summer peak in injury mortality in Japanese children and adolescents aged 0-19 years contrasts, however, with the finding of an earlier study from Canada which showed that there was an autumn peak in school injuries among children aged 5-19 years in 2002. In that study, the higher level of mortality in autumn was attributed to it being the most suitable season to undertake activities in school playgrounds in Canada [16]. In Japan, however, activities for children such as swimming in rivers and the sea or going on trips and school outings tend to mostly occur in summer [17] which might increase the subsequent risk of injury and possible death.…”

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Seasonality of child and adolescent injury mortality in Japan, 2000–2010

Shinsugi

Stickley

Konishi

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Environ Health Prev Med

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Objective Injury is the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in Japan. Despite this, until now there has been comparatively little research on this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to examine if there was seasonal variation in child and adolescent injury mortality in Japan in 2000-2010. Methods Vital statistics injury mortality data were obtained from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. The seasonality of the major causes of unintentional injury (transport accidents, drowning and suffocation) and intentional injury (suicide and homicide) mortality was examined for children and adolescents aged 0-19. Incidence ratios (IR) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) were calculated to determine the difference between the numbers of observed and expected seasonal deaths. Results The annual average injury mortality rate among children and adolescents was 9.0 per 100,000. Deaths from transport accidents, drowning, suffocation and suicide had a significant seasonality. There was a summer peak for transport accidents (IR 1.15, 95 % CI 1.10-1.19) and drowning (IR 2.00, 95 % CI 1.88-2.11), a spring peak for suicide (IR 1.09, 95 % CI 1.04-1.14), while the incidence of suffocation was higher in winter (IR 1.12, 95 % CI 1.03-1.21). Conclusion Child and adolescent injury mortality from transport accidents, drowning, suffocation and suicide has a pronounced seasonality in Japan. More research is now needed to find the circumstances underpinning different forms of injury mortality in different periods of the year so that effective interventions can be designed and implemented to reduce the burden of injury mortality among Japanese children.

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“…Environmental modification and increased supervision can reduce school injuries (44). However, increased teacher supervision not necessarily help to prevent injuries, as 88% of injuries at Missouri schools, for instance, occurred while pupils were allegedly supervised by adults.…”

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School Environment and School Injuries

Salminen

Kurenniemi

Råback

et al. 2014

Front. Public Health

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Background: Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries.Methods: Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injuries were classified as being associated with environmental factors, suspected environmental factors, and others. The consensus between two independent classifiers was 81%.Results: A total of 722 injuries were classified. In 11.6% of these injuries, the physical environment factor was evident, and in 28.1% of the injuries, physical environment was suspected of being a contributory risk factor. Thus the physical environment of the school was a contributing factor in over a third (39.7%) of injuries occurring in the school, on the school yard or during the journey to, or from school. In this study, conducted in Finland, ice on the ground was mentioned most frequently as an environmental risk factor.Conclusion: In Finland, the Nordic weather conditions are not taken into account in the school yard and playground plans as they ought to from the safety point of view. An initiative has been launched on a mandatory wintertime master plan for every school yard.

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School Injury Among Ottawa‐Area Children: A Population‐Based Study

Abstract: Many children get hurt at school, particularly during informal recreation activities. Environmental modification and increased supervision are strategies that may reduce school injuries.

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Child school injury in Lebanon: A study to assess injury incidence, severity and risk factors

Child school injury in Lebanon: A study to assess injury incidence, severity and risk factors

Seasonality of child and adolescent injury mortality in Japan, 2000–2010

School Environment and School Injuries

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