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Published on: September 25, 2014
Sports and recreation injuries in US children and adolescents
P E Bijur1, A Trumble, Y Harel
1Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Objectives:
To estimate and describe morbidity from sports and recreation injuries in children and adolescents.
Design:
Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics--the Child Health Supplement to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey.
Setting:
The general community.
Participants:
Representative sample of the noninstitutionalized civilian US population. Five percent of the eligible households did not participate. The subject of this report is 11,840 children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years.
Main Outcome Measures:
Medically attended nonfatal injuries resulting from sports and recreation, and serious sports injuries, defined as injuries resulting in hospitalization, surgical treatment, missed school, or half a day or more in bed. Sports and recreation injuries were defined as those occurring in a place of recreation or sports, or receiving any of the following International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) E-codes: struck in sports, fall in sports, bicycle-related injury, riding an animal, water sports, overexertion, fall from playground equipment or other vehicles, primarily skates and skateboards.
Results:
The estimated annual number of all injuries from sports and recreation in US children and adolescents is 4,379,000 (95% confidence interval = 3,147,000 to 5,611,000); from serious sport injuries, 1,363,000 (95% confidence interval = 632,000 to 2,095,000). Sports account for 36% of injuries from all causes. Cause and nature of injury are strongly related to age. Sports do not account for a disproportionate number of serious or repeated injuries compared with other causes of injuries.
Conclusion:
Sports activities account for a large number and substantial proportion of all injuries to children and youth.
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