Abstract
Background Children and adolescents have the highest risk of
injury. Emergency department (ED) data provide the best opportunity for estimating the burden of hospital treated injuries. Survey based data remains the only source of information for out of
hospital medically treated injuries in many countries. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence of selected injuries among adolescents in 16 European countries using surveybased and registry based methods.
Methods Survey based data were collected during the 2013/2014
wave of the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC)
study in 42 countries. Children reported the number of medically
treated injuries for the last 12 months, the severity of the most
serious injury as well as the place of occurrence and the activity
when injured. The Registry based data supplied to the European
Injury Data Base (IDB) for the period 2013–2014 provided
detailed information about causes and circumstances of ED
treated injuries for the same period and age group.
Results Detailed analyses were possible using IDB data from 16
countries and HBSC data from 42 countries. Both sources confirm an inter-country variability for burden of injuries among
adolescents. Due to different methodologies in defining an injury
case, comparison is not always possible between registry based
and survey based data collection.
Conclusions Survey based and register based data can be used as
complementary sources of information to have a full picture of
injury burden among adolescents in many European countries.
injury. Emergency department (ED) data provide the best opportunity for estimating the burden of hospital treated injuries. Survey based data remains the only source of information for out of
hospital medically treated injuries in many countries. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence of selected injuries among adolescents in 16 European countries using surveybased and registry based methods.
Methods Survey based data were collected during the 2013/2014
wave of the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC)
study in 42 countries. Children reported the number of medically
treated injuries for the last 12 months, the severity of the most
serious injury as well as the place of occurrence and the activity
when injured. The Registry based data supplied to the European
Injury Data Base (IDB) for the period 2013–2014 provided
detailed information about causes and circumstances of ED
treated injuries for the same period and age group.
Results Detailed analyses were possible using IDB data from 16
countries and HBSC data from 42 countries. Both sources confirm an inter-country variability for burden of injuries among
adolescents. Due to different methodologies in defining an injury
case, comparison is not always possible between registry based
and survey based data collection.
Conclusions Survey based and register based data can be used as
complementary sources of information to have a full picture of
injury burden among adolescents in many European countries.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | A81-A81 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Injury Prevention |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | s2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2016 |
| Event | Safety 2016 World Conference - Tampere, Finland Duration: 18 Sep 2016 → 21 Sep 2016 |