Truancy and injury-related mortality

Truancy and injury-related mortality.

Truancy has well-documented short-term and long-term consequences, but there are few studies that look at its impact on injury-related mortality. This study evaluated the rate of injury-related mortality for 2006-2010 among youth (11-17 years old) with a history of severe truancy compared with youth without such history. There were 168 injury-related deaths (51 homicide, 29 suicide and 88 unint...

Truancy

Predictors of injury-related and non-injury-related mortality among veterans with alcohol use disorders.

AIMS To describe the association between alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and mortality and to examine risk factors for and all-cause, injury-related and non-injury-related mortality among those diagnosed with an AUD. SETTING Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA). PARTICIPANTS A cohort of individuals who received health care in VHA during the fiscal year (FY) 2001...

School refusal and truancy.

Traumatic Brain Injury Related Hospitalization and Mortality in California

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the traumatic brain injury (TBI) population and causes and identify factors associated with TBI hospitalizations and mortality in California. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of 61,188 patients with TBI from the California Hospital Discharge Data 2001 to 2009. We used descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses in SAS version 9.3. ...