Jiang Xuran, Li Dongguang, Boyce William, Pickett William
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K2L 2V7.
Chronic Dis Can. 2007;28(1-2):56-62.
Injuries are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Canadian adolescents. Rural adolescents may be disproportionally affected by these traumatic events. Differences in risk for injury between rural and urban adolescents remain understudied. We compared adolescent reports of medically attended injury by urban-rural geographic status using a representative national sample of Canadian adolescents. The study involved an analysis of a national sample of Canadian adolescents aged 11 to 15 years (N=7,235) from the 2001-2002 WHO/Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey. Respondents were classified into five geographic categories according to school addresses. Several differences in risk for injury were documented by urban-rural geographic status. Adolescents from rural regions were more likely to report medically treated injury compared with the reference population from large metropolitan areas. These patterns of medically attended injury suggest that prevention and intervention programs could be better targeted to the needs of specific geographic populations of Canadian youth.
伤害是加拿大青少年发病和死亡的主要原因。农村青少年可能受到这些创伤事件的影响尤为严重。农村和城市青少年在受伤风险上的差异仍未得到充分研究。我们使用具有代表性的加拿大青少年全国样本，比较了城乡地理状况下青少年就医受伤情况的报告。该研究对2001 - 2002年世界卫生组织/学龄儿童健康行为调查中11至15岁的加拿大青少年全国样本（N = 7235）进行了分析。根据学校地址，受访者被分为五个地理类别。城乡地理状况记录了受伤风险的几个差异。与来自大城市地区的参考人群相比，农村地区的青少年更有可能报告接受过医学治疗的伤害。这些就医受伤模式表明，预防和干预项目可以更好地针对加拿大青年特定地理人群的需求。
