Characteristics Of Childhood Swimming Pool Drowings

儿童泳池溺水事件的特点

• 批准号: 6813971
• 负责人: Ruth A Brenner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6813971
• 关键词: African American; accidents; adolescence (12-20); age difference; caucasian American; clinical research; death certificates; diving /swimming; gender difference; health disparity; human subject; middle childhood (6-11); racial /ethnic difference; young adult human (21-34)

Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related death in childhood. Drowning rates vary with age, gender, and race. Children under 5 and individuals between the ages of 15-24 are at highest risk for drowning. Males drown at a higher rate than females and, after the age of 5, African American males have higher rates of drowning than White males of comparable age. While only about a third of drownings among African American males between the ages of 5-19 years occur in swimming pools, African American males ages 5-9 are four times more likely to drown in swimming pools than white males of comparable age. Similarly, between the ages of 10-19 years, the rates of swimming pool drownings among African American males are over 10 times greater than those of White males. In order to better understand factors underlying the racial disparities in rates of drowning in swimming pools, we examined 712 death certificates for swimming pool drowning cases that occurred between 1995-1998 in the United States among youth ages 5-24. We extracted data on race and ethnicity, nativity, type of swimming pool, time of drowning event and other contributing factors. . Frequencies, proportional distributions and rates were examined to identify variations in patterns of drowning by specific by age, gender, race, and ethnicity. A manuscript reporting results of this study has been submitted for publication.

溺水是儿童期受伤相关死亡的主要原因。溺水率因年龄、性别和种族而异。 5 岁以下儿童和 15 至 24 岁之间的个人溺水的风险最高。男性溺水率高于女性，5 岁以后，非洲裔美国男性溺水率高于同龄白人男性。虽然 5 至 19 岁的非裔美国男性中只有约三分之一的溺水发生在游泳池中，但 5 至 9 岁的非裔美国男性在游泳池中溺水的可能性是同等年龄的白人男性的四倍。同样，在 10 至 19 岁之间，非裔美国男性的游泳池溺水率是白人男性的 10 倍以上。为了更好地了解泳池溺水率种族差异背后的因素，我们检查了 1995 年至 1998 年间美国 5 至 24 岁青少年中发生的 712 份泳池溺水案件的死亡证明。我们提取了有关种族和民族、出生地、游泳池类型、溺水事件发生时间和其他影响因素的数据。 。研究人员对频率、比例分布和比率进行了检查，以确定不同年龄、性别、种族和民族的溺水模式的差异。报告本研究结果的手稿已提交出版。