Abstract
The prevention of injuries belongs to main priorities of the World Health Organization. In children and adolescents, the injury rate comes to the fore in terms of the interest of the whole society in all the advanced countries of the world.
Given the topical nature of the problem and absence of detailed epidemiological data concerning the child injury frequency, a study of child injuries in the South-Bohemian Region was implemented under the auspices of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies. The target of the work presented here was to evaluate the injury frequency depending on the age, gender, nature of the accident, site and activity, type and mechanism of the injury.
The research was performed in a time period from 1. 7. 2009 to 31. 12. 2010 and supported by the Internal Grant Agency of the Czech Ministry of Health. The results of the study were statistically processed by methods of descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests.
The publication summarizes results of combinations of variables, which exerted a statistical significance. We acquired 874 questionnaires in the South-Bohemian Region, concerning 513 (58.7%) accidents in boys and 361 ones (41.3%) in girls.
Most accidents were encountered in children aged 11 to 14 years (total of 225 injuries) and in those aged 15 to 18 years (total of 188 injuries). The injuries increase in number with increasing age.
Most injuries were suffered in the home environment and surroundings. We also studied injuries experienced during sport activities and tested relationships between the gender and activity during the accident, type of the sport, nature of the sport activity and site of the injury.
We also statistically tested the relationship between the child gender and activity during the injury suffered in the school. We also found the fall as an injury mechanism to be considerably prevalent in children aged 0 to 1 year.