The Analysis Of Psychological Health Status And Epidemiologic Characteristics Of Unintentional Injuries Of Students In Tongliao Universities

Objective: To investigate psychological health status and epidemiologic characteristics of unintentional injuries of students in universities, to explore the risk factors of unintentional injuries occurred among university students, providing suggestion to prevent and control the unintentional injuries and psychological problems among students in universities of TongLiao minority nationality regions.Method: A total of 602 students, as subjects were selected from two universities by using cluster-stratified sample. The psychological health status was measured with the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), and analyzed by SPSS11.5 . Unintentional injuries patterns were investigated with questionnaire signed by author in selected universities. General characteristics of students and their parents were investigated with questionnaires of general status for university students designed by author, including parents' occupation, education, income per month etc. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the epidemiological characteristics of unintentional injury. T-test, ANOVA and Chi-square test were used to compare the difference between group, for numeric and categorical variables, respectively. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis method was conducted to explore the risk factors of Unintentional injuries occurred among university students.Results: (1) The total injury incidence rate was 57.6%. The injury incidence rates were higher for female students (62.4%) than male students (54.0%), for grade 4(65.2%) than grade2 (50.2%), for the Han nationality (59.2%) than Meng (57.9%) and other nations' injury incidence rate (33.3%). The incidence rate of injury has no significance difference between different ages (p>0.05).It was the top at age of 23. Except the factor of hostility, the scores of other factors were higher for senior high school students than junior high school (P<0.01); except the factor of horror, the scores of other factors were higher for injured students than uninjured (P<0.01). (2) The total positive rate of the psychological problems of the subjects is 5% among university students. The positive rate of psychiatric symptoms has no significance difference between sexes, grades, and nationalities. Of all the psychiatric symptoms, the top positive rate was crankiness (1%), following in decreasing order were hostility (0.7%), obsessive-compulsive (0.3%), inter-personal sensitivity(0.3%), horror(0.3%). The scores of psychiatric symptoms are lower than normal level of China. The results of Multivariable Logistic Regression show that the injury occurred among university students associated with the grades, sex, nationality, father's living, singleton, and psychiatric factors of obsessive-compulsive.Conclusion: The psychological factors associated with the injury occurred among university students. The effective measures should be taken according to the psychological characteristics and risk factors of the unintentional injuries among university students to prevent and control injury occurring. The health education of preventing injury occurring should be conducted as early as possible to raise awareness among students of injury issues in the universities and promote them growing healthily...