Injury Related Risk Behaviour: A Health Belief Model-Based Study of Primary School Students in a Safe Community in Shanghai

Ling-Ling Zhang,Koustuv Dalal,Shu-Mei Wang,Yinglin Xia

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070563

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Journal: PLoS ONE	Publication Date: Aug 8, 2013
Citations: 22	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Örebro University, Fudan University

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AimTo explore the relationship between Health belief model (HBM) and children and adolescents' unintentional injury risk behavior, to add some useful information for injury prevention.MethodologyWe investigated injury related health risk behavior and health belief status of students at primary schools grade 3 to 4, in a Safe Community, in Shanghai. Self-administered injury questionnaires were used to investigate risk behavior of students and HBM factors.Principal FindingsThe prevalence of risk behavior among students reported in this community was high. HBM scores showed differences between two groups of students classified by whether they had risk behavior or not. Self-efficacy was highly related with the status of socio-psychological behavior.SignificanceHBM has been widely used in explaining the disease-related behavior; however, it has been seldom used in injury-related behavior. The study demonstrated important relation of HBM to students' injury issues, and HBM could explain injury related behavior as well, especially for traffic injury-related behavior. When developing injury prevention strategies, we can take it into account.

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Injury is a major public health issue [1], [2]
The current study investigated the injury related health risk behaviours and health belief status of primary school students in a safe community in Shanghai, China [20]
Injury-related risk behaviour The sample can be divided into two parts: students who had ever engaged in risk behaviours and students who had never engaged in risk behaviours

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Injury is a major public health issue [1], [2]. Injury mainly occurs in younger population groups, especially among children and adolescents [1], [3]. Do injuries result in an increase in the number of deaths among adolescents than other causes, and consume a majority of health care services [4], [5]. Since the 1990s, injury has replaced diseases as the leading killer among the primary and secondary school students in China [4], [5]. Mental health disorders, and even deaths among young people [7], [8]. Injuries have inflicted huge economic loss and considerably impact families and society

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