TABLE A.3, Unintentional injuries reported by 13–15-year-olds included in the Global School Health Survey - World Report on Child Injury Prevention

TABLE A.3Unintentional injuries reported by 13–15-year-olds included in the Global School Health Survey

Country	Botswana		Cayman Islands^a		Chile (Metropolitan)		China (Beijing)		Djibouti
Year	2005		2007		2004		2003		2007
Overall response rate	95.0%		79.0%		85.0%		99.0%		83.0%
Number of schools	25		8		25		25		11
All students	2197		1299		2111		2348		1777

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	1375	63.4	935	73.3	1766	81.1	1936	81.6	923	52.7

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	581	46.4	474	53.9	812	50.9	922	49.8	535	60.1
Female	788	53.6	457	46.1	951	49.1	1014	50.2	387	39.9

Injuries	%	95% CI	%		%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	65.8	62.4–69.1	50.2	–	36.4	33.9–39.0	16.4	14.5–18.4	60.6	56.1–65.0
Unintentional injury	56.0	50.6–61.4	86.0	–	83.6	80.3–86.9	83.6	78.5–88.8	57.3	49.4–65.1

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	41	12.3	16	5.8	13	3.5	7	3.1	9	6.9
Fall	114	34.8	79	26.6	208	46.6	84	40.0	64	45.9
Burn	27	7.7	11	3.3	4	1.0	7	3.2	1	0.7
Struck by an object	51	15.2	24	9.1	25	5.9	35	16.4	16	11.3
Other	99	30.0	154	55.1	200	43.1	80	37.2	48	35.2
Total	332	100.0	284	100.0	450	100.0	213	100.0	138	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	107	32.8	105	37.9	232	52.1	43	20.4	51	40.4
Walking/running	47	14.4	27	8.7	55	12.9	42	19.7	8	6.1
Riding a two-wheeler	70	21.5	75	26.2	41	9.2	29	14.3	18	14.7
Driving motor vehicle	18	5.5	6	2.4	7	1.6	5	2.3	8	6.2
Doing work	40	11.3	11	3.2	12	2.3	12	5.5	3	2.1
Nothing	25	7.2	12	3.8	13	2.7	31	14.3	16	12.5
Something else	22	7.3	52	17.7	90	19.2	51	23.6	22	18.1
Total	329	100.0	288	100.0	450	100.0	213	100.0	126	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Fracture or dislocation	78	23.7	71	27.8	214	48.3	60	28.4	17	13.5
Penetrating injury	108	33.7	67	23.7	24	5.5	30	14.1	17	12.7
Head injury	33	9.4	17	6.8	29	6.5	6	2.8	29	21.8
Gunshot wound	11	3.4	10	3.7	1	0.3	0	0.0	25	18.7
Burn	45	12.9	19	7.0	6	1.4	3	1.4	6	4.5
Amputation	11	3.3	1	0.3	4	0.8	2	0.9	5	3.7
Other	46	13.6	84	30.7	173	37.2	111	52.4	32	25.1
Total	332	100.0	269	100.0	451	100.0	212	100.0	131	100.0

Country	Egypt		Guatemala (Capital City)		Guyana		Jordan
Year	2006		2006		2004		2004		2007
Overall response rate	87.0%		41.0%		80.0%		95.0%		99.8%
Number of schools	51		19		25		26		25
All students	5249		898		1212		2457		2197

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	3910	75.4	690	78.2	1052	86.6	1844	74.0	1631	73.9

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	2082	54.1	275	44.8	415	47.0	820	48.4	916	47.5
Female	1795	45.9	412	55.2	626	53.0	1004	51.6	711	52.5

Injuries	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	38.5	33.4–43.6	33.0	28.3–37.8	33.3	29.1–37.6	36.1	33.0–39.3	43.5	36.5–50.5
Unintentional injury	83.5	78.9–88.2	72.3	66.2–78.3	68.4	61.9–75.0	80.9	76.8–85.0	77.4	72.0–82.8

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	126	28.3	9	8.7	14	8.8	17	4.8	17	4.6
Fall	100	23.7	59	52.0	55	35.7	91	23.6	91	26.9
Burn	8	1.6	0	0.0	3	1.5	7	1.8	7	2.2
Struck by an object	59	14.9	11	7.7	17	12.0	63	16.8	72	22.0
Other	121	31.5	32	31.6	68	42.0	206	52.9	140	40.9
Total	414	100.0	111	100.0	157	100.0	384	100.0	327	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	203	47.1	72	62.9	27	19.9	101	27.2	105	30.7
Walking/running	108	24.4	11	10.1	27	17.4	59	15.0	42	13.8
Riding a two-wheeler	33	7.9	4	2.3	18	11.7	20	5.3	18	5.2
Driving motor vehicle	15	3.1	3	3.7	6	4.4	14	3.9	9	2.7
Doing work	18	4.7	9	7.3	18	10.6	21	5.9	22	7.6
Nothing	31	8.1	2	0.9	20	11.8	78	19.3	46	15.4
Something else	22	4.7	14	12.9	39	24.2	91	23.4	74	24.5
Total	430	100.0	115	100.0	155	100.0	384	100.0	316	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Fracture or dislocation	170	36.3	54	46.6	34	22.3	103	27.0	91	28.2
Penetrating injury	146	37.5	0	0.0	48	31.7	73	20.1	56	16.7
Head injury	27	6.9	6	4.5	6	3.7	23	6.1	34	10.7
Gunshot wound	9	2.3	1	1.0	1	0.6	1	0.4	4	1.2
Burn	8	2.0	3	2.4	9	5.7	13	3.3	6	2.1
Amputation	5	1.2	0	0.0	2	1.1	1	0.2	2	0.5
Other	51	13.8	45	45.5	57	35.0	168	43.0	120	40.6
Total	416	100.0	109	100.0	157	100.0	382	100.0	313	100.0

Country	Kenya		Lebanon		Libyan Arab Jamahiriya		Morocco^b		Namibia^c
Year	2003		2005		2007		2006		2004
Overall response rate	84.0%		88.0%		98.0%		84.0%		82.0%
Number of schools	50		92		50		25		95
All students	3691		5115		2242		2670		6367

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	2758	75.1	3754	73.4	1492	69.3	1866	72.8	4251	63.4

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	1280	47.7	1743	48.3	646	51.1	888	53.3	1852	42.7
Female	1462	52.3	2009	51.7	828	48.9	953	46.7	2370	57.3

Injuries	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	71.0	66.4–75.6	31.1	29.1–33.1	40.3	36.7–43.9	44.7	40.6–48.8	60.2	55.8–64.6
Unintentional injury	64.1	60.7–67.5	85.8	83.4–88.2	74.2	68.3–80.1	65.7	60.1–71.3	60.0	56.4–63.5

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	107	15.5	50	7.0	20	12.3	41	13.8	105	14.0
Fall	231	30.1	204	28.9	28	17.6	135	46.0	237	21.7
Burn	58	7.7	23	3.1	7	3.8	9	2.6	65	8.7
Struck by an object	165	21.7	159	22.8	22	12.4	29	10.4	128	15.0
Other	203	24.9	273	38.2	89	53.9	80	27.1	351	40.5
Total	764	100.0	709	100.0	166	100.0	294	100.0	886	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	224	30.9	234	33.4	74	47.1	123	44.6
Walking/running	215	27.8	89	12.5	31	16.4	25	9.1
Riding a two-wheeler	162	20.3	88	12.4	11	6.3	33	11.3
Driving motor vehicle	25	3.2	33	4.9	9	4.6	14	5.5
Doing work	59	7.2	41	5.9	13	6.7	11	4.4
Nothing	60	7.5	81	11.0	16	7.6	33	12.0
Something else	23	3.2	144	20.0	22	11.3	38	13.1
Total	768	100.0	710	100.0	176	100.0	277	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%			n	%

Fracture or dislocation	234	30.4	262	37.5	42	24.7			209	21.3
Penetrating injury	290	38.9	166	23.2	50	30.9			176	19.0
Head injury	69	9.5	83	11.7	15	9.9			74	9.5
Gunshot wound	23	3.3	9	1.4	3	1.7			24	2.6
Burn	36	4.5	26	3.6	5	2.6			56	7.6
Amputation	21	3.3	6	0.9	1	0.5			54	6.6
Other	87	10.1	157	21.7	56	29.8			296	33.3
Total	760	100.0	709	100.0	172	100.0			889	100.0

Country	Oman		Philippines				Saint Lucia		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Year	2005		2003		2007		2007		2007
Overall response rate	97.0%		84.0%		81.0%		82.0%		84.0%
Number of schools	51		148		73		20		26
All students	2979		7338		5657		1276		1333

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	2280	77.7	4160	69.9	3433	61.1	864	69.4	1029	74.7

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	1109	52.6	1643	40.9	1383	49.4	371	45.3	473	47.5
Female	1146	47.4	2495	59.1	2047	50.6	492	54.7	554	52.5

Injuries	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	26.6	22.5–30.7	29.9	26.2–33.6	46.0	43.0–49.0	47.8	43.4–52.3	48.4	41.0–55.7
Unintentional injury	83.2	79.3–87.1	77.9	74.0–81.8	81.9	78.7–85.0	77.9	72.3–83.6	67.7	60.1–75.3

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	23	7.4	91	11.7	78	14.1	13	5.7	12	6.5
Fall	109	33.3	128	24.6	136	23.9	100	41.8	79	40.7
Burn	2	0.6	25	4.4	6	1.1	1	0.4	6	3.1
Struck by an object	32	9.8	63	9.3	91	17.7	15	6.6	18	8.5
Other	159	49.0	278	47.4	256	43.3	109	45.6	86	41.3
Total	325	100.0	585	100.0	567	100.0	238	100.0	201	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	115	36.7	158	28.8	163	30.0	64	28.5	43	21.6
Walking/running	43	13.1	108	17.5	114	19.0	33	13.4	45	24.9
Riding a two-wheeler	16	5.3	49	6.5	68	10.9	30	13.9	23	11.9
Driving motor vehicle	10	3.1	18	2.8	14	2.2	5	1.9	6	2.8
Doing work	14	4.3	90	15.7	81	12.1	19	8.1	26	12.0
Nothing	75	22.9	78	14.5	85	14.2	12	4.7	16	7.9
Something else	48	14.5	71	14.1	69	11.7	72	29.4	37	19.0
Total	321	100.0	572	100.0	594	100.0	235	100.0	196	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Fracture or dislocation	73	22.8	118	18.9	115	23.1	59	28.1	53	28.5
Penetrating injury	93	29.1	116	20.9	88	19.1	65	26.3	67	33.3
Head injury	14	4.4	66	13.1	65	12.9	11	5.0	5	2.9
Gunshot wound	5	1.6	5	1.0	5	1.4	2	0.8	2	1.4
Burn	14	4.4	13	1.5	2	0.5	9	3.4	11	5.7
Amputation	125	37.4	2	0.4	5	0.8	0	0.0	0	0.0
Other	1	0.3	259	44.3	230	42.2	86	36.4	59	28.1
Total	325	100.0	579	100.0	510	100.0	232	100.0	197	100.0

Country	Swaziland		Tajikistan		Trinidad and Tobago		Uganda		United Republic of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)
Year	2003		2006		2007		2003		2006
Overall response rate	96.0%		80.0%		78.0%		69.0%		87.0%
Number of schools	97		99		32		45		25
All students	7341		9714		2969		3215		2176

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	6784	95.4	7395	76.3	2095	69.1	1878	60.5	1217	49.6

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	2341	35.6	3629	54.1	1018	50.1	880	47.6	649	51.4
Female	4240	64.4	3694	45.9	1063	49.9	963	52.4	560	48.6

Injuries	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	38.6	36.7–40.4	17.6	14.1–21.1	46.5	43.1–49.8	63.4	58.5–68.4	39.9	36.1–43.7
Unintentional injury	58.4	56.0–60.9	82.0	75.4–88.6	75.4	71.5–79.2	71.6	67.7–75.7	89.6	86.3–92.8

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	121	11.6	29	12.6	24	7.6	84	14.0	17	5.2
Fall	366	35.5	117	57.0	173	38.3	227	38.8	133	50.7
Burn	73	6.8	2	0.9	2	0.3	46	7.8	23	8.6
Struck by an object	126	11.7	14	6.5	66	13.9	98	16.7	39	13.4
Other	367	34.4	33	23.0	182	38.9	142	22.7	67	22.1
Total	1053	100.0	195	100.0	447	100.0	597	100.0	279	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	342	32.6	135	58.6	176	37.4	233	38.5	100	38.9
Walking/running	157	14.7	33	13.4	38	8.3	117	19.4	41	17.9
Riding a two-wheeler	119	11.7	28	19.0	55	12.4	97	17.1	38	13.8
Driving motor vehicle	52	5.2	3	1.1	15	4.1	17	2.6	5	1.5
Doing work	141	13.2	13	4.4	35	5.8	54	9.2	8	3.3
Nothing	93	8.7	4	2.2	21	5.4	41	7.1	46	19.2
Something else	146	13.9	4	1.3	112	26.6	39	6.1	14	5.5
Total	1050	100.0	220	100.0	452	100.0	598	100.0	252	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%

Fracture or dislocation	314	30.0	92	47.5	102	24.1	186	30.3	61	23.4
Penetrating injury	310	30.1	39	20.0	124	24.8	238	40.2	60	20.8
Head injury	62	6.0	27	14.4	21	5.0	45	7.7	42	15.5
Gunshot wound	7	0.7	0	0.0	4	0.7	8	1.5	4	2.1
Burn	89	8.8	12	4.9	20	5.7	35	5.7	33	13.9
Amputation	24	2.6	3	2.1	2	0.0	21	3.6	6	3.5
Other	237	21.9	21	11.1	165	39.8	64	11.0	47	20.9
Total	1043	100.0	194	100.0	438	100.0	597	100.0	253	100.0

Country	Uruguay		Zambia		Zimbabwe (Harare)
Year	2006		2004		2003
Overall response rate	71.0%		70.0%		84.0%
Number of schools	95		47		25
All students	3406		2257		1997

Sample	n	%	n	%	n	%

Students 13–15 yrs	2372	70.4	1241	58.9	1435	72.8

Sex	n	%	n	%	n	%

Male	1070	45.1	553	51.5	604	47.8
Female	1296	54.9	651	48.5	823	52.2

Injuries	%	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI

Any injury	25.5	23.7–27.3	71.5	65.5–77.4	57.1	49.7–64.5
Unintentional injury	86.3	82.9–89.7	61.7	55.6–67.8	68.6	64.0–73.3

Cause of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%

Road traffic injury	38	10.5	54	26.5	49	12.5
Fall	152	37.3	43	20.2	143	36.6
Burn	3	0.6	18	9.4	33	8.1
Struck by an object	47	11.1	43	21.5	62	14.9
Other	164	40.5	51	22.5	107	27.9
Total	404	100.0	209	100.0	394	100.0

Activity	n	%	n	%	n	%

Playing a sport	223	54.2	79	38.8	123	32.2
Walking/running	26	6.6	40	18.8	68	17.3
Riding a two-wheeler	53	13.7	20	8.7	65	16.4
Driving motor vehicle	22	5.7	6	2.8	15	3.6
Doing work	11	2.9	29	15.2	63	14.8
Nothing	6	1.7	25	11.7	24	6.8
Something else	62	15.2	9	3.9	38	8.9
Total	403	100.0	208	100.0	396	100.0

Nature of injury	n	%	n	%	n	%

Fracture or dislocation	145	36.2	52	23.4	146	38.3
Penetrating injury	29	7.7	40	19.2	90	23.2
Head injury	24	6.2	32	16.7	49	12.4
Gunshot wound	0	0.0	8	4.0	6	1.5
Burn	9	2.1	20	10.5	28	6.6
Amputation	0	0.0	16	6.6	13	3.7
Other	187	47.8	41	19.5	58	14.2
Total	394	100.0	209	100.0	390	100.0

: CI = Confidence interval.
a: No confidence intervals available.
b: Did not collect information about the nature of injury.
c: Did not collect information about activity.
: Source: WHO Global School Health Survey (http://www.who.int/chp/gshs/en/, accessed 18 July 2008).

From: Statistical Annex Explanatory Notes

World Report on Child Injury Prevention.

Peden M, Oyegbite K, Ozanne-Smith J, et al., editors.

Geneva: World Health Organization; 2008.

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