Objective To study the incidence of injuries and their epidemiological characteristics among residents in Pudong, and find out their influencing factors.
Methods Retrospective survey was conducted in 16 661 residents through two-stage PPS cluster sampling without replacement method. The incidence and composition of injuries as well as non-conditional logistic regression models were used to describe their epidemiological characteristics and related risk factors.
Results The in cidence rate of injuries was 1.72%. Male to female radio was 1.29:1. The major places where injuries occurred were at home and on street. The major activities when injuries occurred were housework and working. The major injured parts were lower limbs with the main clinical manifestations of fractures, open wounds and crush injuries. The top 5 causes were accidental falls, collisions, traffic accidents, cuts, and burns and scalds, in which accidental falling was the main cause for injury occurred in all age groups. Insufficient sleep, use of psychotropic drugs and low level of injury prevention knowledge were important risk factors for injury.
Conclusion In order to prevent injuries, attention should be paid to not only its epidemiological characteristics, but also in-depth the wide variety of injury-related risk factors and their mechanisms, and then the establishment of local intervention strategies or measures. Data collection should be completed by the joint efforts of injury out-patient departments, injury surveillance for focused age and work groups, and community injury surveys.
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