@article{ref1,
title="Predicting traffic injuries in childhood: a cohort analysis",
journal="Journal of pediatrics",
year="1989",
author="Pless, Ivan Barry and Peckham, C. S. and Power, C.",
volume="115",
number="6",
pages="932-938",
abstract="Data from a sample of more than 16,000 children born in the United Kingdom in 1958 were studied to identify factors that may affect the risk of having a traffic injury. Five sets of risk factors were examined: physical, developmental, educational, behavioral, and family. Information about these factors were obtained systematically from parents, teachers, and physicians when the children were 7 and 11 years of age. The results were related to traffic injuries occurring for the first time during each subsequent 4-year period. Between 8 and 11 years of age, 431 children had a traffic injury requiring medical attention, and between 12 and 16 years the number was 590. Logistic regression analyses identified a small number of factors associated with injuries, which varied according to the age and gender of the child. When all these factors were entered into a final model, only five remained: fidgety, abnormal behavior, and three measures of family disruption or disadvantage--crowding, family problems, and being removed from the family and placed in the care of the local authority. These findings suggest that it may be unwise to place much reliance on &quot;high risk&quot; preventive strategies by measures of this kind. Instead, more emphasis should be placed on community-based passive and environmental strategies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3476",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}