Abstract
This study analyses surveillance data on summer camp injuries. Its aim was to create a typology of injury characteristics and circumstances specifically designed to elaborate safety strategies. Seven variables describing aspects of 726 summer camp injuries registered over a 3 month period in 8 different summer camps were analysed simultaneously using, in sequence, factor analysis of correspondence (FAC) and hierarchical ascendant classification (HAC). Relationships between injury characteristics and injured pupils' age and gender were measured. An eight injury patterns typology was obtained and significant relationships were found between injury patterns and both age and gender. The construction of an injury typology by means of methods similar to those employed in the current study may prove a great benefit in the context of camp injury prevention. Such benefit might accrue to both camp managers who are making decisions concerned with setting priorities and other persons in a camp environment.
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