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Playground equipment injuries in a large, urban school district.

Author(s) -

W. Thomas Boyce,

Sue Sobolewski,

Lewis W. Sprunger,

Catherine Schaefer

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.74.9.984

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , school district , medicine , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , poison control , suicide prevention , environmental health , human factors and ergonomics , demography , medical emergency , psychology , mathematics education , physics , pathology , sociology , optics

We studied the epidemiologic features of playground equipment-related injuries occurring in a large, urban school district over a two-year period. Nurses in each of the district's 68 elementary schools completed self-coded reporting forms on all injuries meeting standardized criteria. A total of 511 equipment-related injuries were reported, an incidence of 8.9 injuries per 1,000 student-years. One-fourth of the injuries were severe, and climbing equipment was disproportionately represented among playground equipment associated with injuries. Extreme variability was found among school-specific rates of equipment injury, with schools at the two extremes separated by as much as a 40-fold difference in incidence. Two school characteristics--smaller student enrollments and the presence of alternative educational programs--were significantly associated with higher equipment-related injury rates.

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