HEALTH INITIATIVES

C. APPA's Multi-Centre Study on Childhood Unintentional Injury

OBJECTIVES:

To set up a comparative longitudinal database on childhood injuries in different countries and ,

 Home injury: the role of socio-environment, caregiver and child-based risk factors – a comparative cross-country study.

METHODOLOGY:

• Hospital-based.

• Epidemiological data on childhood injuries will be compared.

• In-depth interviews of domestic injury cases admitted to hospital. 

• Each case will be grouped into a “child injury situation” basing on five “situational attributes”: physical hazards, carer’s and peer’s behaviors as hazards, child in dangerous state, child’s own dangerous act and mere accident. 

• The child injury situations will be plotted on the age line. The age line and child injury situations from different countries will be compared. 

• The role of socio-environmental, caregiver and child-based risk factors will be analyzed.

PLAN OF STUDY:

Each national country to nominate one co-coordinator and will meet before the end of the year to finalize the methodology and questionnaire.

 Data collection to start by April 1999. As for funding, each country will have to solicit funding for the research.

Announcement

APSSEAR (Association of Pediatric Societies of Southeast Asian Region) is now known as APPA (Asian Pacific Pediatric Association)!

This move was decided at the meeting of the Council in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2003. The change is to truly reflect the composition of the member societies.

With this, the webpage which was previously at apssear.com have now shifted to its current site http://www.appassoc.org

Updated July 2006

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