Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Samoa, 2017

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WSM_2017_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury broken bone (Q18)

Data file: WSH2017_GSHS_Data_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1804

Invalid: 151

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	1127	62.5%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	224	12.4%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	76	4.2%
4	Concussion/head injury	105	5.8%
5	I had a gunshot wound	18	1%
6	I had a bad burn	64	3.5%
7	I was poisoned	10	0.6%
8	Something else happened to me	180	10%
Sysmiss		151

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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