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Citation |
Feng W, Gong Q, Liu K, Li H. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017; 14(3): e14030241. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo 315010, Zhejiang Province, China. lihui4329@163.com. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2017, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) |
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28257072 |
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Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to explore the epidemiological features of common unintentional injury-related behaviours and to identify possible factors that lead to these unsafe behaviours among adolescents. A representative sample of 10,806 students was recruited from 77 schools by using the two-stage stratified random sampling method. All participants took a self-administered questionnaires and data were analysed to estimate the prevalence of unintentional injury-related behaviours and to identify the influential factors for these behaviours. The prevalence of unsafe swimming, jaywalking, illegal bicycling and not wearing a seat belt was 6.35%, 33.08%, 18.10% and 15.73%, respectively. The proportion of students who had two, three or four unintentional injury-related behaviours was 14.59%, 4.27% and 0.57%, respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed that male adolescents, living in an urban area and attending a vocational-technical school might contribute to the occurrence of four unintentional injury-related behaviours. In addition, the marital status of parents and father with a college degree or above were negatively associated with the adolescent's behaviour of not wearing a seat belt. Considering diverse epidemiological characteristics of unintentional injury-related behaviours among adolescents, targeted interventions such as enhancing self-protection capabilities and strengthening safety consciousness by family, school and related departments should be implemented to lower the occurrence of unintentional injury-related behaviours. Language: en |
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Keywords |
influence factors; logistic regression analysis; students; unintentional injury |