Predictors of injury mortality: findings from a large national cohort in Thailand.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present predictors of injury mortality by types of injury and by pre-existing attributes or other individual exposures identified at baseline.

Design

5-year prospective longitudinal study.

Setting

Contemporary Thailand (2005-2010), a country undergoing epidemiological transition.

Participants

Data derived from a research cohort of 87 037 distance-learning students enrolled at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University residing nationwide.

Measures

Cohort members completed a comprehensive baseline mail-out questionnaire in 2005 reporting geodemographic, behavioural, health and injury data. These responses were matched with national death records using the Thai Citizen ID number. Age-sex adjusted multinomial logistic regression was used to calcula

SUBMITTER: Yiengprugsawan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4054638 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature