Assessing injuries with proxies: implications for understanding concurrent relations and behavioral antecedents of pediatric injuries.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the implications of using proxies of medically attended injuries (minor injuries and close calls) for understanding concurrent relations among-and behavioral antecedents of-pediatric injuries.


METHODS
Participants were 812 children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Measures of externalizing behavior, maternal depression, SES, and the home environment were examined as prospective predictors of minor injuries, close calls, and medically attended injuries.


RESULTS
Minor injuries and close calls were associated with medically attended injuries concurrently. Regression equations revealed different prospective predictors across the three outcome variables.


CONCLUSIONS
This study was the first to examine concurrent associations among minor injuries, close calls, and medically attended injuries. Prospective antecedents of each injury assessment were also examined. The present findings signify the importance of distinguishing between these different methods of assessing pediatric injury. The study also illustrated that different analytic strategies were needed to represent observed data of each outcome variable.
Karazsia
Bryan T
BT
Kent State University, USA. bkarazsi@gmail.com
van Dulmen
Manfred H M
MH
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D018579:Patient Selection; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*