Association between health-related quality of life and children's unintentional injuries.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the association between health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and unintentional injuries among children.


METHODS
Overall, 3375 children aged 6-10 years were randomly selected from primary schools in Iran. HRQOL was measured by 56 items taken from seven domains of TNO AZL child quality of life (TACQOL) parent form. Parents were interviewed to collect information about incidence, cause and a brief description of injury within the past 12 months prior to the study.


RESULTS
The response rate was 3375 of 3792 (89%). There was a significant trend for increasing occurrence of injury with decreasing of HRQOL (P<0.001). Adjusted OR for injury was significantly higher in very low (2.38, 95% CI: 1.45-3.86), low (2.18, 95% CI: 1.34-3.56), medium (1.73, 95%CI: 1.06-2.83) HRQOL groups compared to reference group (very high HRQOL). The median of total HRQOL (P<0.001) and all its domains (P=0.017) (except autonomous functioning) was less in injured group compared to the uninjured one.


CONCLUSIONS
This study found an association between HRQOL and unintentional injury among primary schoolchildren. This is a preliminary finding and so further investigations with a well-defined analytical design needs to be done.
Soori
Hamid
H
Safety Promotion & Injury Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abachizadeh
Kambiz
K
D000061:Accidents, Home / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*