title: Analysis of Behavioural Characteristics Related to Unintentional Injury in Southeast Chinese Adolescents: Evidence from a School-Based Survey.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the epidemiological features of common unintentional injury-related behaviours and to identify possible factors that lead to these unsafe behaviours among adolescents. A representative sample of 10,806 students was recruited from 77 schools by using the two-stage stratified random sampling method. All participants took a self-administered questionnaires and data were analysed to estimate the prevalence of unintentional injury-related behaviours and to identify the influential factors for these behaviours. The prevalence of unsafe swimming, jaywalking, illegal bicycling and not wearing a seat belt was 6.35%, 33.08%, 18.10% and 15.73%, respectively. The proportion of students who had two, three or four unintentional injury-related behaviours was 14.59%, 4.27% and 0.57%, respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed that male adolescents, living in an urban area and attending a vocational-technical school might contribute to the occurrence of four unintentional injury-related behaviours. In addition, the marital status of parents and father with a college degree or above were negatively associated with the adolescent's behaviour of not wearing a seat belt. Considering diverse epidemiological characteristics of unintentional injury-related behaviours among adolescents, targeted interventions such as enhancing self-protection capabilities and strengthening safety consciousness by family, school and related departments should be implemented to lower the occurrence of unintentional injury-related behaviours.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chronic Diseases and Community Health, Fenghua District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo 315010, Zhejiang Province, China. fhfwhhxx1111@163.com.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo 315010, Zhejiang Province, China. gongqinghai@163.com.
authors.forename: Qinghai
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: Department of Science Research and Information Management, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051, Zhejiang Province, China. kliucdc@yeah.net.
authors.forename: Kui
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, Ningbo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ningbo 315010, Zhejiang Province, China. lihui4329@163.com.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D044466:Asian People; D002681:China; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D010290:Parents; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012449:Safety; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: influence factors; logistic regression analysis; students; unintentional injury