Unintentional injuries are major cause of death and disability in children. In this regard, mothers play important role in adopting preventive measures to avoid these injuries. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of protection motivation to prevent home injuries among mothers with children under 5 year-old. This study was performed on 204 mothers having children under 5 year-o...

Injuries are the result of an acute exposure to exhort of energy or a consequence of a deficiency in a vital element that exceeds physiological thresholds resulting threatens life. They are classified as intentional or unintentional. Injuries are considered a global health issue because they cause more than 5 million deaths per year worldwide and they are an important contributor to the burden ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of quantity and quality of early child care on children's risk for unintentional injury. METHODS A diverse cohort of 1,225 children was recruited from several sites in the United States and followed from birth until first grade. Quantity and quality of child care from birth until entry into kindergarten were used to predict unintentional injuries from age 6...

INTRODUCTION Recent changes in unspecified unintentional injury mortality for the elderly by U.S. state remain unreported. This study aims to examine U.S. state variations in mortality from unspecified unintentional injury among Americans aged 65+, 1999-2013; METHODS Using mortality rates from the U.S. CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS™), we examined unspec...

The objective of this study was to provide an epidemiologic basis for planning community programmes preventing injuries during leisure physical activity, especially participation in sports. A total population survey of unintentional injuries was carried out in an area with a population of over 41,000. All sports injuries (n = 933) occurring within a 12-month period and requiring medical care we...

OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of disability from unintentional injury in teenagers and young adults. METHODS Analyses of data from the National Child Development Study, a follow up study of 98% of all children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in one week in March, 1958. In 1981, 12,537 study participants, 76% of the original cohort, were asked about unintentional injuries since age 16 yea...

Objective: To determine the predisposing factors contributing to unintentional home injuries in children under 5 years of age presenting Emergency department Ziauddin medical university and hospital, Karachi Place duration study: The study is conducted at Department Emergency, Medical University Hospital, And 13th October 2019 12th April 2020. It a cross-sectional design having 200 patients, wh...