Sumilo D, Stewart-Brown S
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Public Health. 2006 Feb;120(2):125-31. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2005.01.018. Epub 2005 Nov 2.
Injuries are the leading cause of mortality and also an important cause of permanent disability in young people living in developed countries. This study aimed to inform injury prevention programmes by assessing the incidence of injury and disabling injury, and identifying factors predicting injury in students at institutes of higher education, an under-researched group with regard to injury studies.
Secondary analysis of data obtained from a postal questionnaire survey of 1208 students at three institutions in the UK.
Eighteen percent (222/1208) of students reported at least one injury requiring medical attention in the last year. Males and younger students were at greater risk, as were those who reported 'seeking out risky activities because they enjoyed potential danger'. Seventy-nine percent of reported injuries caused some degree of, at least temporary, disability. Four percent of students reported an injury in the last year that interfered with studies, work or other regular daily activities for at least 1 month. Team sports increased the risk of injury by a factor of 2.5 independently of age, gender and risk-taking attitudes. Sport/physical activity injuries were much more likely to be disabling than injuries attributable to other causes.
There is a need for injury prevention programmes among students at institutes of higher education. Programmes need to disseminate the risk of disabling injury, particularly that attributable to participation in sport/physical activity. There is an urgent need for those working on injury prevention to collaborate with those working on other aspects of health promotion to define the net health gain from participation in sport/physical activity and to develop coherent public health messages.
在发达国家,伤害是年轻人死亡的主要原因,也是导致永久性残疾的重要原因。本研究旨在通过评估伤害和致残性伤害的发生率,并确定高等教育机构学生中伤害的预测因素,为伤害预防计划提供信息,高等教育机构学生在伤害研究方面是一个研究较少的群体。
对英国三所机构的1208名学生进行邮政问卷调查所获得的数据进行二次分析。
18%(222/1208)的学生报告在过去一年中至少有一次需要医疗护理的伤害。男性和年轻学生受伤风险更高,那些报告“因为喜欢潜在危险而寻求危险活动”的学生也是如此。报告的伤害中有79%造成了某种程度的、至少是暂时的残疾。4%的学生报告在过去一年中受伤,且该伤害干扰学习、工作或其他日常常规活动至少1个月。团队运动使受伤风险独立于年龄、性别和冒险态度增加了2.5倍。与其他原因导致的伤害相比,运动/体育活动伤害导致残疾的可能性要大得多。
高等教育机构的学生需要伤害预防计划。这些计划需要传播致残性伤害的风险,特别是参与运动/体育活动导致的伤害风险。迫切需要从事伤害预防工作的人员与从事健康促进其他方面工作的人员合作,以确定参与运动/体育活动带来的净健康收益,并制定连贯的公共卫生信息。