The Situation And Influential Factors Of Sports Injury Among Guangzhou College Students

Objective To investigate the situation and influential factors of sports injury among Guangzhou college students and to provide a basis for the decision of injuries prevention and control in college students.Methods Stratified and clustered random sampled 3800 students of seven universities in Guangzhou and conducted a questionnaire suvey among them; descriptive stastistic,t-test,binary logistic regression, multinomial logistic regression, exploratory factor analysis and canonical correlation analysis were used to analyze the data.Results1. In the past year, the incidence of sports injury among college students in GuangZhou was 51.0%. The athletic injuries rate of male was 58.1% and the female was 48.3%. In 1868 sports injury students,63.7% was hurt once,18.7% was twice and 17.5% was more than three times. The locations of injury were primary in ankle joint (27.4%) and hand (15.1%); Types of injuries distributed mainly in Skin wound (28.2%), joint(20.9%),ligament(17.3) and muscle (17.2%) traumas following by, and the percentages of tendon and bone traumas were the lowest, accounting for 8.6%,and 7.8%. Acute injuries accounted for 63.7% and 36.3% were chronic injuries.2.45.4% was treated in hospital and 26.7% was teachers or other students to deal with and 27.9% was no treatment; 3.6% was geat affected; 23.1% could not continue to participate in physical exercise; Recovery time concentrated in a month, accounting for 88.8% and 11.2% stuedents stopped exercising for more than one month. 3. Various gender, age and majors had various rates of injuries (P<0.05); Daily average time in learning,sleeping and using computer, participating in associations of athletics and dance had effect on the occurrence of injury (P<0.05). Basketball and soccer had positive correlation with injury (P=0.000). Average numbers of weekly exercise and average time for each exercise of injuried group were larger. It was prone to injure while doing sport at afternoon; In addition, the material of sports field,whether crowded in sports field,warming-up and school health promotion education had relevant to the coccurrence of sports injuries (P<0.05). The occurrence of sports injuries had the positive relation with the coping styles and sociability personality (P<0.05).4. The results of multinomial logistic regression showed as follow:Six types of injuries were relevant to basketball,football and doing exercise in sick or injured (OR>1).The occurrence of skin wound,joint and bone traumas in female were less than that of male. Daily average time of sleep in tendon injury were longer. Participating in track and field and martial art were risk factors of muscle injuries.5. Factor analysis and canonical correlation analysis showed that:doing exercise in sick,injured or fatigue had positive correlations with the times,charactors,seriousness and recovery of injuries; Age, the time of doing exercise showed positive relation with the times of injuries; doing exercise outdoor or playing basketball were the risk factors of lower extremity injury, as well as joint, ligament and bone injury.Conclusion1. The overall rate of athletic injuries in Guangzhou college students was high.2. Male,ankle,hand,acute skin and joint injury were the common injuries in Sports injuries among college students; 43% was more than twice injury; serious tendon and bone injury could been seem.3. The coccurrence of sports injury had relevant to exercise time,sports facilities,exercise in ill,injured or tired and school sports health promotion education.4. Sports injury could affect the physical function and life of college students.5. Therefore, in order to reduce and control the sports injury, a series of integrated interventions could be targeted to college students to carry out.