The effect of surface and season on playground injury rates

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Each year, an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 children in Canada are treated in hospital emergency departments for playground-related injuries ().In Canada, approximately 2500 children 14 years of age and younger are admitted to hospital for serious injuries resulting from a playground fall every year ().Studies show that 67% of playground injuries are caused by falls from equipment to the ground ...

A systematic review of the risk factors and interventions for the ...

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Comparison of injury rates to expected injury rates (playground exposure) There was a significantly different pattern of injury on bark and concrete/tarmac surfaces (p < 0.005); however, no statistically significant difference was found between surfacings: 12: Safety of surfaces and equipment for children in playgrounds (Mott et al. 1997)

The Current Status of Public Playground Safety and Children's Risk ...

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Playground-related traumatic brain injuries are the result of children falling while playing at a playground, which may lead to brain injuries, skull fractures, or upper extremity injuries [12,21]. However, if the ground and playground equipment are improved in accordance with safety standards, this can reduce the injury rate of children.

What is the Relationship between Risky Outdoor Play and Health in ...

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The influence of injury prevention strategies such as playground standards and supervision on injury rates is not clear. In Canada, playground related hospitalizations for children aged 1 to 13 years decreased from 45.8 to 32.7 per 100,000 population between 1994/1995 and 2011/2012 [ 35 ].

Epidemiological Characteristics of School Playground Injuries

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Each year, more than 8.6 million children are treated for unintentional injuries in emergency departments (EDs) 1 and cost estimates have been reported at $405 billion. 2 Playground injuries are reported to be the leading location of unintentional recreation injuries to children aged 1 to 10 years with over 200 000 children each year treated in EDs for playground injuries. 1, 3-8

A descriptive analysis of children's playground injuries in the United ...

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OBJECTIVES: To review playground injury statistics over a five year period in order to develop an awareness of how and where children in the United States are being injured. METHODS: All data are based on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) for playground related injuries during 1990-4.

Playground equipment-related extremity fractures in children presenting ...

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Background. Playgrounds provide a protected space for children to play and have known physical and cognitive benefits (Trembley et al. 2015).Each year, playground injuries are responsible for approximately 200,000 United States (US) emergency department (ED) visits in children younger than 18 years (Vollman et al. 2009).Since 2006, the overall annual rate of playground injuries have increased ...

Playground equipment-related extremity fractures in children presenting ...

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The annual rate of ED visits due to playground equipment-related extremity fractures remained stable (annual rate of change = 0.74, p = 0.14) from 2006 to 2016. Adjusted for age, injuries on monkey bars or climbing gyms were associated with significantly increased odds of extremity fractures in comparison to injuries from other playground equipment (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.9 ...

Playground injuries in children - PMC - PubMed Central (PMC)

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Around six decades ago, the rate of childhood death in Sweden was higher than that in the US, but after the 1980s, because of forward planning, Sweden now has the lowest rates of child injury.23 An observational study from Wales showed that 90% of playground-related accidents requiring emergency room attendance were attributable to unsafe playground equipment.16,22 Previous research has also ...

Preventing playground injuries - PMC - National Center for ...

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Every year in Canada, an estimated 28,500 children are treated in emergency departments and hospitals for playground injuries. The majority of these injuries occur among elementary school-aged children (2-5). The most common mechanism of injury is falling from equipment, which is responsible for more than two-thirds of playground injuries (1 ...

Playground slide-related injuries in preschool children: increased risk ...

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Over one-fifth of all ED visits for US playground-related injuries are due to slides, and 4.5% of these have required hospitalization (Loder, 2008; Vollman et al., 2009). In Korea, slides accounted for the highest percentage of playground equipment-related injuries resulting in ED visits (40.5%) and hospitalizations (33.9%) (Bae et al., 2017).

Epidemiological Characteristics of School Playground Injuries

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Epidemiological Characteristics of School Playground Injuries Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2024 Jan;63(1):135-145. doi: 10.1177/00099228231172482. Epub 2023 May 22. Authors Eric A Kennedy 1 ...

Safety of School Playgrounds: Field Analysis From a Randomized Sample

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Research supports recess, however, playground injuries are prevalent with more than 200,000 cases per year requiring medical attention. School playgrounds are among the leading location for injury. The purpose was to identify the safety and risk factors of playground environments and impact attenuation characteristics of surfacing materials.

The Epidemiology of Children Playground Equipment-related Injuries in ...

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6 477 876) ED visits related to playground injuries in children ≤17 years were reported in the USA. This was equal to estimated 214 268 (95% CI 169 421-259 115) playground injuries per year. The average incidence was 29.4 (95% CI 22-36.7) injuries/10 000 children ≤17 years/year during this period. The mean age of the

The effect of safer play equipment on playground injury rates ... - PubMed

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This translated into 550 injuries avoided in the post-intervention period. In nonintervention schools, the rate of injury increased from 1.44 (95% CI 1.07-1.81) to 1.81 (95% CI 1.07-2.53) during the study period (RR 1.40, 95% CI 1.29-1.52). Interpretation: The CSA standards were an effective tool in identifying hazardous playground equipment ...

Surface characteristics, equipment height, and the occurrence and ...

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Inspected equipment was implicated in 185 injuries. The g-max measurements (1995 only) were available for 110 of these playground accidents. Results: One third of falls (35 %) occurred on a surface exceeding 200 g and the risk of injury was three times greater than for g level lower than 150 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.45 to 6.35). On ...

PDF Injuries and Deaths Associated With Children's Playground Equipment - CPSC

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In 1999, an estimated 205,850 playground equipment-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms. This adjusted estimate translates to a rate of about 7.5 injuries per 10,000 U.S. population in 1999. Age-specific incidence was about 29.1 injuries per 10,000 children younger than 5 years, 34.8 per 10,000 children 5-14

Playground equipment injuries at home versus those in public ... - PubMed

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The objective of the present research was to compare the severity of playground-related injuries in backyards of home with those occurring in public settings. This case-control study used emergency-based surveillance data from Canada regarding children, 3-11 years old, who were injured after falling from playground equipment (PGE).

Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a ...

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An understanding of sport injuries is important for researchers in sport injury epidemiology when determining how to best define and assess their research questions and measures. ... 4 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 5 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital ...
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