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- Title
Non-Fatal Gunshot Trauma Among A Sample of Adolescents in Djibouti: Prevalence and Sociodemographic Associations.
- Authors
Wilson, Michael L.; Lewis, Erin R.
- Abstract
Firearm trauma is the second most common cause of serious injury among adolescents in the Republic of Djibouti. The aim of this study was to explore the sociodemographic correlates of serious injury and non-fatal gunshot trauma among adolescents in Djibouti. Using multinomial logistic regression, we compared a sample of adolescents (N = 1,711) who self-reported a non-firearm-related serious injury (n = 587) and those who reported a firearm-related injury (n = 101) with non-injured participants (n = 1,023) during a 12-month recall period. Analyses targeted demographic, behavioral, social, mental health, and family factors. After adjusting for covariates, participants reporting a non-firearm-related serious injury were more likely to report having been involved in physical fights (relative risk ratio [RRR] = 145; confidence interval [CI] = [1.04, 2.02), being bullied (RRR = 2.83; CI = [2.24, 3.56]), feeling lonely (RRR = 1.48; CI = [1.11, 1.96]), having signs of depression (RRR = 1.27; CI = [1.02, 1.58]), and be truant from school (RRR = 1.68; CI = [1.25, 2.28]). Those who reported a gunshot injury recorded being bullied (RRR = 2.83; CI = [1.77, 4.53]) and physically attacked at higher rates (RRR = 1.78; CI = [1.09, 2.89]). Serious injuries, whether firearm related or not, are important threats to adolescent health in Djibouti with potentially serious health-related correlates. More research, particularly multilevel designs, are needed to explain context-relevant factors associated with serious trauma in Djibouti.
- Subjects
DJIBOUTI; ANALYSIS of covariance; ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; GUNSHOT wounds; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; RELATIVE medical risk; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 2, p320
- ISSN
0886-2605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0886260513505142