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- Title
Using Participant Event Monitoring in a Cohort Study of Unintentional Injuries Among Children and Adolescents.
- Authors
Wilkins III, J. R.; Crawford, J. Mac; Stallones, Lorann; Koechlin, Kathleen M.; Shen, Lei; Hayes, John; Bean, Thomas L.
- 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 youths aged 9 to 18 years and will yield reliable daily data on unintentional injuries. (Am J Public Health. 2007;97:283-290.)
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S injuries; AGRICULTURAL economics; CHILDREN'S accidents; AGRICULTURAL laborers; EMPLOYMENT of students; ACCIDENT prevention; WOUNDS &; injuries; DECISION making in farm management; CHILD rearing; FAMILY life education
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2007, Vol 97, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2005.077172