One Year's Incidence of School Accidents and Their Severity in a Swedish Municipality

Jacobsson, Bo; Bek-Jensen, Hanne; Jansson, Bjarne

doi:10.3109/02813438609014834

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“…Williams et al (1998) found in their study of sports injuries among Scottish adolescents that boys had a higher prevalence of injuries, as well as a higher severity (according to the AIS codes), than girls. Their finding concurs with other studies that conclude higher incident rates among boys (Zaricznyj et al, 1980; Jacobsson et al, 1986) as well as more severe injuries, than in girls (Sahlin, 1990). This dispersion is often explained by higher exposure time and intensity of male activities as well as a higher risk‐taking temperament.…”

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confidence: 92%

Injuries during physical activity in school children

Sundblad

Saartok

Engström³

et al. 2004

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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During the spring of 2001, 1975 children, from grades 3, 6 and 9 participated in a nationwide, multidisciplinary collaboration study. The students came from randomly selected classes throughout Sweden, representing different geographical and socio-economic areas. The aim of this study was to collect and evaluate self-reported injuries and associated factors during various physical activities as recalled retrospectively for 3 months by the students. Every sixth student (n=299 or 16%) reported 306 injuries. Twice as many girls than boys were injured during physical education class. Ninth-grade students reported relatively more injuries during organized sports than during physical education class and leisure activities. There were no age or gender differences in incidence rate during leisure activities. Most injuries were minor, as 70% were back in physical activity within a week. Half of the students (50%) reported that they previously had injured the same body part. Primary care of the injured student was, with the exception of a family member, most often carried out by the physical education teacher or coach, which accentuates the importance of continuous sports medicine first aid education for this group.

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confidence: 92%

Injuries during physical activity in school children

Sundblad

Saartok

Engström³

et al. 2004

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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“…Yet, the mean AIS score found indicates that the injuries in this study were no! less severe than previously reported (19).…”

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“…In this study 50 injuries were reported during 39 school days. This rate corresponds to 19 in-juriesil000 student-years which is half the rate reported in recently published Nordic studies (2,3,9,18,19). Thus, an underreporting probably occurred.…”

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Injuries at School

Bremberg

Gerber

1988

Acta Paediatrica

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One quarter of all injuries in children of school age occur at school. In order to analyse the importance of schoolmate interactions and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships for the occurrence of injuries at school a case-control study was carried out in 1986 in the comprehensive schools of Linköping. Fifty injured students and 50 controls, matched by grade and sex, were interviewed. Sixty-six percent of all injuries occurred during time not organized by the teachers. In 36% the situation was characterized by brawling or chasing. Injured students demonstrated significantly more often unsatisfactory relationships with schoolmates. In the age group at highest risk (11-13 years) differences between injured and controls were most apparent. Student proposals to prevent injuries most commonly concerned brawling during breaks. The study indicates that interaction between schoolmates and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships are important determinants of risk of injury at school.

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“…However, girls are nearly twice as likely to be injured as boys at the school playground in Tucson, AZ, USA (10). In French schools, girls were injured during sports and physical training more often than boys (11), whereas in Swedish schools boys injured more often during sports and breaks (12). …”

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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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One Year's Incidence of School Accidents and Their Severity in a Swedish Municipality

Cited by 16 publications

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Injuries during physical activity in school children

Injuries during physical activity in school children

Injuries at School

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