Limited longitudinal research has examined relationships between depression and injury, particularly in rural contexts. This paper reports cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the Australian Rural Mental Health Study (ARMHS) exploring relationships between "probable depression" episodes and unintentional injury. Participants completed four surveys over five years. Multivariate logisti...

Accepted 11 May 1996 Abstract 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 of98% 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 unintentiona...

OBJECTIVES Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important sociocultural and public health problem. This study aims to assess sociodemographic and injury characteristics of IPV victims among adults in a traditional southern European population. SETTING Accident and emergency departments of three sentinel hospitals in Greece participating in the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System ...

BACKGROUND Identify children at-risk of having mental health problems is of value to prevent injury. But the limited agreement between informants might jeopardize prevention initiatives. The aims of the present study were 1) to test the concordance between parents and children reports, and 2) to investigate their relationships with parental reports of children' unintentional injuries. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in young children. A previous study reported the protective effect of maternal parenting on young childhood injury; however, few studies have shown an association between paternal involvement in childcare and young childhood injury. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of paternal involvement in childcare to reduce ...

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for individuals ages 1–44.1 Furthermore, unintentional injuries are the leading cause of potential years of life lost for those less than age 65.2 In the United States, deaths from unintentional injuries account for approximately two-thirds of all injury-related deaths.1 Due to this signifi cant societal impact, Healthy People 2010 calls for...