@article{ref1,
title="Using Participant Event Monitoring in a Cohort Study of Unintentional Injuries Among Children and Adolescents",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2006",
author="Wilkins, J. R. and Crawford, J. Mac and Stallones, Lorann and Koechlin, Kathleen M. and Shen, Lei and Hayes, Joseph and Bean, Thomas L.",
volume="97",
number="2",
pages="283-290",
abstract="Objectives. We conducted a 3-year cohort study of 407 youths aged 9 to 18 years to develop multivariable risk prediction models of agriculture-related injuries. Methods. Data were obtained via participant event monitoring, with youths self-reporting injuries and exposures in daily diaries over a 13-week period. We evaluated data quality by comparing injury self-reports with other injury data. Results. Semilogarithmic plots of rates of all unintentional injuries combined (US data from 2000) as well as of agriculture-related injuries (US and Canadian data from 19 previous studies) graphed as a function of injury severity exhibited linearity, as did plots based on the present results. Severity-specific unintentional injury rates were 1.4- to 4.3-times higher than national rates, suggesting that our methodology can significantly reduce injury underreporting. In addition, at each severity level, estimated agriculture-related injury rates were 5.8- to 9.3-times higher than rates from previous national, regional, and state-based studies. Conclusions. Our approach to participant event monitoring can be implemented with aged 9 to 18 years and will yield reliable daily data on unintentional injuries.  <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="10.2105/AJPH.2005.077172",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.077172"
}