TY - JOUR
T1 - Child Behavior and Accidental Injury in 11,966 Preschool Children
AU - Bijur, Polly E.
AU - Stewart Brown, Sarah
AU - Butler, Neville
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded inpartbyUSNa¬ tionalInstituteofMentalHealthgrantT32- MH-13043,theUnitedKingdomDepartmentof HealthandSocialSecurity,andtheUnitedKing¬ domDepartmentofEducationandScience. Wewouldliketoacknowledgethecontribution oftheAreaHealthAuthoritiesandLocalEduca¬ tionAuthoritiesinGreatBritainandthestaffof theChildHealthandEducationStudy,Depart¬ ment ofChildHealth,UniversityofBristol.We alsowishtothankDavidRush,MD,andJean Golding,PhD,fortheirscientificcontributions andeditorialreview.
PY - 1986/5
Y1 - 1986/5
N2 - Social and behavioral characteristics of 11,966 British children, aged 5 years, and mothers’ reports of accidental injuries between birth and age 5 years were analyzed. Aggressive behavior was associated with all accidental injuries after controlling psychosocial variables including social class; crowding; mother’s psychological distress, age, and marital status; and child’s sex. Overactivity was associated only with injuries not resulting in hospitalization after control of the covariates. The relative risk of injuries resulting in hospitalization was 1.9 among children with both high activity and high aggression scores compared with children with low scores on both behavioral scales. The findings support the inference that aggression and overactivity are independently associated with accidents. The associations between child behavior and injuries were stronger than the associations between injuries and the social factors including social class and crowding. This finding suggests that interventions aimed at high-risk groups may be effective supplements to environmental interventions.
AB - Social and behavioral characteristics of 11,966 British children, aged 5 years, and mothers’ reports of accidental injuries between birth and age 5 years were analyzed. Aggressive behavior was associated with all accidental injuries after controlling psychosocial variables including social class; crowding; mother’s psychological distress, age, and marital status; and child’s sex. Overactivity was associated only with injuries not resulting in hospitalization after control of the covariates. The relative risk of injuries resulting in hospitalization was 1.9 among children with both high activity and high aggression scores compared with children with low scores on both behavioral scales. The findings support the inference that aggression and overactivity are independently associated with accidents. The associations between child behavior and injuries were stronger than the associations between injuries and the social factors including social class and crowding. This finding suggests that interventions aimed at high-risk groups may be effective supplements to environmental interventions.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpedi.1986.02140190097036
DO - 10.1001/archpedi.1986.02140190097036
M3 - Article
C2 - 3962946
AN - SCOPUS:0022636824
SN - 0002-922X
VL - 140
SP - 487
EP - 492
JO - American Journal of Diseases of Children
JF - American Journal of Diseases of Children
IS - 5
ER -