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Abstract
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Injuries impose a major morbidity and mortality burden globally with over two-third of injuries sustained in low and middle-income countries; smoking, low socio-economic status, age, sex, and psychological distress have been identified as risk factors.
To describe these factor associations with self-reported injuries and its prevalence in the past 12 months among Pakistani students of class 8-10, I used data from the two-stage cluster sample-based nationally representative Global School-Based Health Survey (GSHS) for Pakistan, conducted in 2009 by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, United States. GSHS defined injury as requiring treatment by a doctor/nurse or necessitating missing at least one full day of usual activities for example, school, sports or a job. Design-based analysis using STATA-12 was done using bivariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression. Factors found statistically significant at p<0.1 level on simple logistic regression were used for multiple logistic regression.
The overall prevalence of one or more injuries in the past 12 months was 36.5% [95% confidence interval (CI): 30.6%, 42.2%] (n = 5147). In male students the prevalence was 42.2% (95% CI: 37.8%, 46.5%), while among females the prevalence was 27.2% (95% CI: 19.5%, 34.9%).
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