@article{ref1,
title="Risk behaviors contributing to recent serious unintentional injuries among school-going adolescent boys in Kolkata: application of zero-inflated count model",
journal="Indian journal of public health",
year="2018",
author="Chakraborty, Arup and Lahiri, Arista",
volume="62",
number="4",
pages="265-270",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Unintentional injuries have become a major noncommunicable disease burden, especially among the adolescents. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: The current study was conducted to estimate the effect of different aspects of daily activities of adolescence for sustaining serious unintentional injuries in the past 1 year. <br><br>METHODS: A cross-sectional survey with multistage sampling with validated pretested questionnaire was done among the school-going adolescent boys in Kolkata. Poisson regression was used to model the counts of serious injuries. To account for the excess of zero in the outcome, zero-inflated Poisson regression was performed. <br><br>RESULTS: Among the participants, 73.5% did not report any serious unintentional injury sustained in the past 1 year, 11.9% reported to have sustained serious unintentional injury once in the past 1 year, and rest had more than one count. Statistically significant higher chance of sustaining an episode of injury was found among frequent users of motorbike (incidence rate ratio [IRR]: 1.183), frequently walking on roads (IRR: 1.910), and frequently crossing major roads on bicycle (IRR: 2.181) were observed. A statistically significant protective rate ratio was also obtained for those frequently obeying traffic signals while crossing roads (IRR: 0.493) and frequent users of bicycles (IRR: 0.384). Significantly lower rate ratio for sustaining a serious injury was observed with frequently getting into fight at home (IRR: 0.343) and getting beaten up at school (IRR: 0.595). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed traveling in a car and obeying traffic rules were protective from sustaining serious injury. However, walking and participation in sports appeared to be risky, especially for sustaining another episode of serious injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0019-557X",
doi="10.4103/ijph.IJPH_6_18",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_6_18"
}