Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Sri Lanka, 2016

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LKA_2016_GSHS_v01_M

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Epidemiology Unit, Colombo

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Serious injury type (Q18)

Data file: 2016LKA

Overview

Valid: 3084

Invalid: 178

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. An injury is serious when it makes you miss at least one full day of usual activities (such as school, sports, or a job) or requires treatment by a doctor or nurse.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, what was the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	2266	73.5%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	173	5.6%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	181	5.9%
4	Concussion/head injury	40	1.3%
5	I had a gunshot wound	9	0.3%
6	I had a bad burn	22	0.7%
7	I was poisoned	12	0.4%
8	Something else happened to me	381	12.4%
Sysmiss		178

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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