Relationship between some family factors and accident-proneness among school-aged children

  Objective   To explore the relationship between some family factors and acciden-tpro neness among school-aged children, and appro ach measures for unintentional injury prevention.

  Methods   Factors related to family were collected by structured questionnaire both for acciden-tprone school-aged children and their controls, χ² Test and unconditional Logistic regression analysis were performed to demonstrate the relationship between these family factors and acciden-tproneness.

  Results   There were significances between cases and controls in parents.education and occupation, family structure and scale, guardians and their health state, superv ision behaviors.Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that loweducation for father, without parents.supervision, abuse and violence were risk factors of acciden-tproneness for school-aged children.

  Conclusion   It is important to elevate education level for rural population and teach them right method to treat children.Farmers should not leave their children to larg-escale families, or to those guardians who are nothealth enough or prefer to punish children, when they move to urban.Additionally, schools and society should give more loving and care to the children from special families such as single-parent family.