TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Unintentional injuries and socio-psychological correlates among school-going adolescents in Mozambique
JO  - Vulnerable children and youth studies
A1  - Pengpid, Supa
A1  - Peltzer, Karl
SP  - 32
EP  - 39
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
N2  - BACKGROUND: The study aimed to report on the prevalence and socio-psychological correlates of non-fatal injury among school-going adolescents in Mozambique.<br><br>METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the 2015 'Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS)' included 1918 students (median age 15 years, interquartile range = 3 years) that were representative of all students in secondary school in Mozambique.<br><br>RESULTS: The proportion of participants with one or multiple injuries in the past 12 months was 55.7%, 30.0% once and 25.7% multiple times. The most frequent cause of the reported injury was 'traffic injury' (7.6%), followed by 'fall' (7.0%), 'poisoning' (5.0%), 'struck or hit by person' (3.6%) and 'struck or hit by object' (2.6%). The most common injury type was 'fracture or dislocation' (9.8%), followed by 'cut or stab wound' (7.5%), burns (2.7%) and 'gunshot wound' (2.6%). In adjusted logistic regression analysis, current tobacco use, attending physical education classes three or more days a week and psychological distress were associated with annual injury.<br><br>CONCLUSION: A high prevalence of annual injury was found and several variables were identified that could be targeted in injury prevention programmes in this school population.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1745-0128
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2019.1679936
ID  - ref1
ER  -