title: Young Egyptians' perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of injuries.
abstract: The objective of this study was to qualitatively evaluate young Egyptians' perceptions, attitudes, knowledge and behaviour towards injuries before implementation of an extensive questionnaire about injuries among Egyptian youth. In 2008, five focus groups of three to nine participants each were conducted in Cairo, Egypt in Arabic to evaluate young Egyptians' attitudes towards injuries, injury prevention, and their understanding of 'accidents' and fatalism. Participants were 14-26 years of age and were from medium to high socioeconomic status. Focus group participants noted that the concept of hadthah ('accident') signified an event determined by destiny, whereas esabah ('injury') was the result of human actions. The results of these focus groups indicate that young, educated Egyptians are interested in injury prevention programmes despite low confidence in the preventability of injuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. hday@epi.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Hannah R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: Maged
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Setouhy
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Shinawi
authors.forename: Amr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assem
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ismail
authors.forename: Marwa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salem
authors.forename: Gordon S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Jon Mark
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hirshon
mesh_terms: D000056:Accident Prevention / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D055815:Young Adult