A radiation accident is an unintentional exposure to ionizing radiation or radioactive contamination, resulting in possible deleterious effects on the exposed individuals [1,2]. Since the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and radioactivity in 1896, there have been accidents caused by radiation exposure, although radiological accidents requiring medical care rarely occurred [3]. As early as 1897, Becq...

BACKGROUND Unintentional non-adherence has been characterized as passively inconsistent medication-taking behavior (forgetfulness or carelessness). Our objectives were to: (1) study the prevalence and predictors of unintentional non-adherence; and (2) explore the interrelationship between intentional and unintentional non-adherence in relation to patients' medication beliefs. METHODS We condu...

Purpose: Accidents and injuries in childhood are a common public health problem worldwide. The preventable unintentional injury rates high, especially children who spend most of their time at school. purpose this study is to determine schoolchildren's attitudes towards factors affecting these attitudes. 
 Methods: This was cross-sectional that enrolled students from Turkish elementary scho...

Unintentional lane departure accidents are one of the biggest reasons for causalities that occur due to human errors. By incorporating lane-keeping features in vehicles, many can be avoided. The system operates by auto-steering vehicle order keep it within desired lane, despite changes road conditions and other interferences. Accurate steering angle prediction is crucial boundaries, which a cha...

Implicit moral evaluations-i.e., immediate, unintentional assessments of the wrongness of actions or persons-play a central role in supporting moral behavior in everyday life. Yet little research has employed methods that rigorously measure individual differences in implicit moral evaluations. In five experiments, we develop a new sequential priming measure-the Moral Categorization Task-and a m...

Injury is a leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents worldwide. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the epidemiologic characteristics of the pediatric unintentional injuries presenting to the Korean emergency department (ED). We included unintentional injuries in patients aged < 20 yr. Data collected from January 2010 to December 2011 was extracted from ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the epidemiological features of common unintentional injury-related behaviours and to identify possible factors that lead to these unsafe behaviours among adolescents. A representative sample of 10,806 students was recruited from 77 schools by using the two-stage stratified random sampling method. All participants took a self-administered questionnaires ...

BACKGROUND Young people's alcohol and drug use increases during holidays. Despite strong associations between substance use and both violence and unintentional injury, little is known about this relationship in young people holidaying abroad. We examine how risks of violence and unintentional injury abroad relate to substance use and the effects of nationality and holiday destination on these r...

aims: this study aims to review the economic cost of childhood (0-18 years) unintentional injuries (ui) and focuses upon comparing the cost burden between developing and developed countries. methods: articles were selected from pubmed using the search words “economic cost”, “unintentional injuries” and “children”. nine articles were selected. results: studies in china focused upon cost to hospi...