Injury incidence among college students in Wuhan city

Objective To study the incidence of injuries and its influence factors among underg raduates for adopting effective prevention measures.Methods Stratified cluster sampling method was used to collect 1201 college students as the sample from one university in Wuhan and a questionnaire survey on injury was conducted in the students.Results The incidence rate of injury was 9.45%.The top three types of injuries were fall,mechanical injury and traffic accident.There were significant differences in the types of injuries between different genders(χ²=11.79,P<0.05).The injuries occurred mainly in the sport region s(50.01%).The main injury-inducing activity was sport(67.86%).The main injury site was lower extrem ities(50.89%).Most of injuries were cured by doctors.The first kind of injury was skin injury(38.39%)and the second was spra in and subcutaneous tissue injury.The injuries occurred mainly in October and the lowe stincidence was in February.Conclusion The incidence rate of injury was higher in univerity students and the most of the injuries occured in sports-related activities.