Citation

Ueland O. Scand. J. Public Health 1999; 27(2): 112-115.

Affiliation

National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. oydis.ueland@matforsk.no

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Associations of Public Health in the Nordic Countries Regions, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10421719

Abstract

A case-control study investigating the characteristics of injured versus uninjured skiers was carried out. The study comprised patients (n = 67) who had received medical treatment for ski injuries at a hospital in Norway in 1993, and controls (n = 227) taken from the same population but who had not sustained any ski injuries. The results showed that the hospital cases skied more often, were more confident in their skiing ability, had a higher education but that the younger members of this group tended to be less safety conscious compared with the corresponding controls. A reduction in the risk of ski injury might be possible if younger persons could be encouraged to adopt the same level of safety behaviour as older persons.

Language: en