Relationships between community social capital and injury in Canadian adolescents: a multilevel analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Characteristics of social environments are potential risk factors for adolescent injury. Impacts of social capital on the occurrence of such injuries have rarely been explored.

Methods

General health questionnaires were completed by 8910 youth aged 14 years and older as part of the 2010 Canadian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study. These were supplemented with community-level data from the 2006 Canada Census of Population. Multilevel logistic regression models with random intercepts were fit to examine associations of interest. The reliability and validity of variables used in this analysis had been established in past studies, or in new analyses that employed factor analysis.

Results

Between school differences explained 2% of the variance in the

SUBMITTER: Vafaei A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4717402 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature