title: [Investigation on the unintentional injuries among rural children in Shaanxi province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the current status of unintentional injuries among rural children aged 0 - 12 years in Shaanxi.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using a three-stage stratified random sampling method to study the status of unintentional injuries among 4668 children aged 0 - 12 years old during the period of 2010 in rural areas of Shaanxi province.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall incidence of injure was 27.3%, with boys as 28.7% and girls as 25.6% respectively (χ(2) = 5.91, P = 0.015). Age differences in unintentional injuries rate were also significant (χ(2) = 9.91, P = 0.007), with children under 0 - 3 years old having the highest rate of injuries, followed by 7 - 12 and 4 - 6 year-olds. Falls took the leading type of accident among both sexes and all age groups. Poorer the family economic situation was, higher the incidence of unintentional injuries appeared.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Falls was the leading cause of unintentional injuries among rural children in Shaanxi province, with age 0 - 3 year group appeared the highest to suffer unintentional injuries. Unintentional injuries were associated with the economic status of the families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Statistics, College of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Lei-huan
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Ling-xia
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*