Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
child, emergency department, injury, pediatric, playground, school
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Clinical Pediatrics
Abstract
Reports of children’s play-related injuries have remained stagnant according to epidemiology studies of the past 3 decades. This article provides a unique look into the context of playground injuries within an entire school district, demonstrating the prevalence of these injuries. This study reports that playgrounds are the leading location of school injury, comprising one-third of all elementary school injuries. This study found that while head/neck injuries were the most commonly injured body region within the playground environment, the proportion of head/neck injuries decreased with age, whereas the proportion of extremity injuries increased with age. At least 1 upper extremity injury required outside medical attention for every 4 that were treated on-site, making upper extremity injuries roughly twice as likely to require outside medical attention as injuries to other body regions. The data in this study are useful for interpreting injury patterns in the context and evaluation of existing safety standards for playgrounds.
Department
Department of Health, Recreation, and Community Services
Department
National Program for Playground Safety
Original Publication Date
5-22-2023
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1177/00099228231172482
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2023 The Author(s). CC BY-NC License
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, Eric A.; Filchner, Drew A.; Patterson, Zane D.; and Olsen, Heather M., "Epidemiological Characteristics Of School Playground Injuries" (2023). Faculty Publications. 5442.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5442
Comments
First published in Clinical Pediatrics (CLP) (2023) by Sage Journals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228231172482