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Injuries across adolescence: an investigation using the Extended Adolescent Injury Checklist (E‐AIC)
Author(s) -
Chapman Rebekah,
Buckley Lisa,
Sheehan Mary
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he11128
Subject(s) - medicine , checklist , injury prevention , poison control , context (archaeology) , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , normative , public health , human factors and ergonomics , clinical psychology , family medicine , gerontology , psychology , medical emergency , nursing , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , cognitive psychology , biology
Issues addressed Injuries are the leading cause of death among adolescents. The current research examined a measure of adolescent injury in terms of whether it encompasses the diverse injury experiences of Australian adolescents, including high‐risk and normative adolescents, and thus determine its utility as a tool for health promotion research. Methods Grade 9 students from two Brisbane high schools (n=202, aged 13–14 years) and adolescents recruited from the Emergency Department waiting rooms of four Brisbane hospitals (n=98, aged 16–18 years) completed the Extended Adolescent Injury Checklist (E‐AIC). Results The most common cause of injury among adolescents was a sports activity, followed by fights for all participants except schoolbased males, who experienced more bicycle injuries. Alcohol use was most frequently reported in association with interpersonal violence injuries. Conclusions A broad variety of injuries, occurring in context of multiple risk as well as normative behaviours, were reported by adolescents in both school and ED settings, and were captured by the E‐AIC. So what? Findings suggest that the E‐AIC is a useful measure that captures the injury experiences of adolescents in different contexts. The high occurrence of injuries that do not result in formal medical treatment also indicates scope for interventions to be based around lessons in first aid, while also incorporating injury prevention components.