Publication: Unintentional injuries and socio-psychological correlates among school-going adolescents in Mozambique
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2020-01-02
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17450136
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17450128
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Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. Vol.15, No.1 (2020), 32-39
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Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer Unintentional injuries and socio-psychological correlates among school-going adolescents in Mozambique. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. Vol.15, No.1 (2020), 32-39. doi:10.1080/17450128.2019.1679936 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/53912
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Unintentional injuries and socio-psychological correlates among school-going adolescents in Mozambique
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: The study aimed to report on the prevalence and socio-psychological correlates of non-fatal injury among school-going adolescents in Mozambique. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the 2015 ‘Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS)’ included 1918 students (median age 15 years, interquartile range = 3 years) that were representative of all students in secondary school in Mozambique. Results: The proportion of participants with one or multiple injuries in the past 12 months was 55.7%, 30.0% once and 25.7% multiple times. The most frequent cause of the reported injury was ‘traffic injury’ (7.6%), followed by ‘fall’ (7.0%), 'poisoning' (5.0%), ‘struck or hit by person’ (3.6%) and ‘struck or hit by object’ (2.6%). The most common injury type was ‘fracture or dislocation’ (9.8%), followed by ‘cut or stab wound’ (7.5%), burns (2.7%) and ‘gunshot wound’ (2.6%). In adjusted logistic regression analysis, current tobacco use, attending physical education classes three or more days a week and psychological distress were associated with annual injury. Conclusion: A high prevalence of annual injury was found and several variables were identified that could be targeted in injury prevention programmes in this school population.