TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Left-handedness as a risk factor for unintentional injury in children
JO  - Pediatrics
A1  - Graham, C. J.
A1  - Dick, Rhonda
A1  - Rickert, Vaughn I.
A1  - Glenn, R.
SP  - 823
EP  - 826
VL  - 92
IS  - 6
N2  - OBJECTIVE. To determine whether left-handedness is a risk factor for unintentional injury among children and adolescents. DESIGN. Case-control study. SETTING. Pediatric emergency department of Arkansas Children's Hospital. PATIENTS. 265 patients sustaining unintentional trauma aged 6 to 18 years and 494 control patients who did not have trauma were given a questionnaire to determine handedness, past unintentional injury, and parental perception of injury proneness. RESULTS. The frequency of left-handedness in the trauma group (18.1%) was significantly greater than frequency of 10.5% in the control group (P < .003, odds ratio = 1.80, 95% confidence interval 1.20 to 2.72). Multivariate analysis revealed handedness as the only significant variable between trauma and control (P < .04). The proportion of left-handers who had been hospitalized previously for injury treatment (20.0%) was larger than the proportion of right-handers, (12.0%) (P < .026, odds ratio = 1.84, 95% confidence interval 1.03 to 3.27). More parents of left-handers rated their child as "more clumsy than average" than parents of right-handers (26.0% vs 15.2%, P < .007). CONCLUSIONS. Left-handedness appears to be a risk factor for unintentional injury in children and adolescents in a pediatric emergency department population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0031-4005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -