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B T Karazsia1, S M Guilfoyle, B G Wildman
1Department of Psychology, The College of Wooster, OH 44691, USA. bkarazsia@wooster.edu
Background:
Extensive research suggests that risk of injury is higher among young boys versus young girls. The present study examined a mediational model to identify mechanisms that may explain differences in injury risk.
Methods:
Reports of child behaviour and two indices of injury risk among 114 children in early childhood were obtained from parents in community-based paediatric medical centres.
Results:
Regression analyses and post-hoc examination of indirect effects supported a mediation model in which the relationship between child sex and child injury risk was explained by hyperactivity and inattention.
Conclusions:
Interventions that promote child well-being by targeting constellations of externalizing behaviour problems may simultaneously decrease paediatric injury risk.
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