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Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014
BACKGROUND: Sports and recreational activities are an important cause of injury among children and youth, with sports-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) being of particular concern given the developing brain. This paper reports the characteristics of sport and recreation-related (SR) emergency...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29761235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-018-0152-0 |
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author | Harmon, Katherine J. Proescholdbell, Scott K. Register-Mihalik, Johna Richardson, David B. Waller, Anna E. Marshall, Stephen W. |
author_facet | Harmon, Katherine J. Proescholdbell, Scott K. Register-Mihalik, Johna Richardson, David B. Waller, Anna E. Marshall, Stephen W. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Sports and recreational activities are an important cause of injury among children and youth, with sports-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) being of particular concern given the developing brain. This paper reports the characteristics of sport and recreation-related (SR) emergency department (ED) visits among school-age children and youth in a statewide population. METHODS: This study included all injury-related visits made to all North Carolina 24/7 acute-care civilian hospital-affiliated EDs by school-age youth, 5–18 years of age, during 2010–2014 (N = 918,662). Population estimates were based on US decennial census data. Poisson regression methods were used to estimate incidence rates and rate ratios. RESULTS: During the five-year period, there were 767,075 unintentional injury-related ED visits among school-age youth, of which 213,518 (27.8%) were identified as SR injuries. The average annual absolute number and incidence rate (IR) of SR ED visits among school-age youth was 42,704 and 2374.5 ED visits per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI], 2364.4–2384.6), respectively. In comparison to other unintentional injuries among school-age youth, SR ED visits were more likely to be diagnosed with an injury to the upper extremity (Injury Proportion Ratio [IPR] = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.27–1.29), the lower extremity (IPR = 1.14; 95% CI, 1.13–1.15), and a TBI or other head/neck/facial injury (IPR = 1.12; 95% CI, 1.11–1.13). Among ED visits made by school-age youth, the leading cause of SR injury was sports/athletics played as a group or team. The leading cause of team sports/athletics injury was American tackle football among boys and soccer among girls. The proportion of ED visits diagnosed with a TBI varied by age and sex, with 15–18 year-olds and boys having the highest population-based rates. CONCLUSIONS: Sports and recreational activities are an important component of a healthy lifestyle, but they are also a major source of injury morbidity among school-age youth. Physical activity interventions should take into account sex and age differences in SR injury risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-59517912018-05-18 Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 Harmon, Katherine J. Proescholdbell, Scott K. Register-Mihalik, Johna Richardson, David B. Waller, Anna E. Marshall, Stephen W. Inj Epidemiol Original Contribution BACKGROUND: Sports and recreational activities are an important cause of injury among children and youth, with sports-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) being of particular concern given the developing brain. This paper reports the characteristics of sport and recreation-related (SR) emergency department (ED) visits among school-age children and youth in a statewide population. METHODS: This study included all injury-related visits made to all North Carolina 24/7 acute-care civilian hospital-affiliated EDs by school-age youth, 5–18 years of age, during 2010–2014 (N = 918,662). Population estimates were based on US decennial census data. Poisson regression methods were used to estimate incidence rates and rate ratios. RESULTS: During the five-year period, there were 767,075 unintentional injury-related ED visits among school-age youth, of which 213,518 (27.8%) were identified as SR injuries. The average annual absolute number and incidence rate (IR) of SR ED visits among school-age youth was 42,704 and 2374.5 ED visits per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI], 2364.4–2384.6), respectively. In comparison to other unintentional injuries among school-age youth, SR ED visits were more likely to be diagnosed with an injury to the upper extremity (Injury Proportion Ratio [IPR] = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.27–1.29), the lower extremity (IPR = 1.14; 95% CI, 1.13–1.15), and a TBI or other head/neck/facial injury (IPR = 1.12; 95% CI, 1.11–1.13). Among ED visits made by school-age youth, the leading cause of SR injury was sports/athletics played as a group or team. The leading cause of team sports/athletics injury was American tackle football among boys and soccer among girls. The proportion of ED visits diagnosed with a TBI varied by age and sex, with 15–18 year-olds and boys having the highest population-based rates. CONCLUSIONS: Sports and recreational activities are an important component of a healthy lifestyle, but they are also a major source of injury morbidity among school-age youth. Physical activity interventions should take into account sex and age differences in SR injury risk. Springer International Publishing 2018-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5951791/ /pubmed/29761235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-018-0152-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Contribution Harmon, Katherine J. Proescholdbell, Scott K. Register-Mihalik, Johna Richardson, David B. Waller, Anna E. Marshall, Stephen W. Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title | Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title_full | Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title_fullStr | Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title_short | Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014 |
title_sort | characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in north carolina, 2010–2014 |
topic | Original Contribution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29761235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-018-0152-0 |
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