An analysis of sport injuries status and risk factors in rural school children in Fenggang County

Objective To explore the situation of the sports-related unintentional injuries of the school-aged children in Fenggang county, Zunyi city, and to provide the basic evidence for the sports injury prevention strategy. Methods A total of 465 students from primary and secondary schools of grade 4 to grade 7 were recruited by multi-stage cluster random sampling, then self-designed questionnaires of children sports injuries were used to conduct a survey to collect the condition about general characters, family, school situation, sports injuries in a recent year and related knowledge about sports injuries. Results The unintentional injury annual incidence of school children in Fenggang county was 18.71%, and boys was higher than girls(22.63% vs 14.41%). The highest incidence of the children's sports injuries was 29.28% in Grade 7; the lowest was 7.76% in Grade 5. The incidence of injuries in the left-behind children was significantly higher than that in un-left-behind children(22.26% vs 12.20%). The incidence of injuries of boarder was significantly higher than day pupils(24.53% vs 13.83%).The main injury action was running(33.33%). The main types of injuries were bruises(40.23%). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that “not warm up before exercise”(OR=3.834,95% CI:1.362-10.792),“without accompany”(OR=2.403,95% CI:3.742-30.616),“movement in the concrete board”(OR=4.175,95% CI:1.457-11.964) and“leather shoes(OR=7.301,95% CI:1.736-30.705) or sandals(OR=4.316,95% CI:1.245-14.966)”were the risk factors for sports-related injuries. Except awareness rate on the item of “cold compress after a sprained” was higher in non-injured children than that of the injured children(χ²=5.36,P=0.021),there was no difference in other issues (all P>0.05). Conclusions The risk factors of sports injury is relatively clear among rural children in Fenggang country, and reasonable intervention measures should be taken to reduce sports-related injuries.