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Quantifying the risk of sports injury: a systematic review of activity-specific rates for children under 16 years of ageAnneliese B Spinks
School of Medicine, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia
Br J Sports Med 41:548-57; discussion 557. 2007..Very few studies have investigated sports-related injuries in children younger than 8 years or in unorganised sports situations...
Host factors and childhood injury: the influence of hyperactivity and aggressionAnneliese B Spinks
School of Medicine, Griffith University, Logan, Australia
J Dev Behav Pediatr 29:117-23. 2008..Eight hundred and seventy-one children were recruited into the study of which 811 (93%) completed the full 12 months of follow-up. All subsequent analysis was limited to the children who were retained for the full study period...
Parental attitudes to supervision and risk of childhood injury: results from a primary school cohortAnneliese B Spinks
School of Medicine, Griffith University, Logan, Australia
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 15:49-52. 2008
Injury risk from popular childhood physical activities: results from an Australian primary school cohortA B Spinks
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Inj Prev 12:390-4. 2006..Children engage in various physical activities that pose different injury risks. However, the lack of adequate data on exposure has meant that these risks have not been quantified or compared in young children aged 5-12 years...
Determinants of sufficient daily activity in Australian primary school childrenAnneliese Spinks
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 42:674-9. 2006..We aimed to measure physical activity participation in a random sample of Australian primary school children and to determine the biological, behavioural, environmental and social influences associated with insufficient daily activity...
Compliance with the Australian national physical activity guidelines for children: relationship to overweight statusAnneliese B Spinks
University of Queensland, School of Population Health, Herston Road, Herston, QLD, Australia
J Sci Med Sport 10:156-63. 2007..Given that overuse of electronic entertainment was positively associated with childhood obesity, these children should be the target of public health campaigns to promote alternative leisure time activities...
The properties of the International Classification of the External Cause of Injury when used as an instrument for injury prevention researchD Scott
Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Inj Prev 12:253-7. 2006..The results of this study provide considerable support for the ICECI and its further use...
Scald prevention campaigns: do they work?Melanie Spallek
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Burn Care Res 28:328-33. 2007..The lack of effect identified in this study provides further evidence of the strong need to conduct rigorous evaluations of all major health promotion campaigns to add to the evidence base for such activities...
Walking to school: distribution by age, sex and socio-economic statusMelanie Spallek
School of Population Health, University of Queensland
Health Promot J Austr 17:134-8. 2006..CONCLUSION: The majority of children aged 5-12 live close to school but only a small minority of students walk the distance. Walking to school was least common in children from higher socio-economic backgrounds...
Quantifying the association between physical activity and injury in primary school-aged childrenAnneliese B Spinks
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Pediatrics 118:e43-50. 2006..To date, these risks have not been quantified in primary school-aged children despite injury being a leading cause for hospitalization and death in this population...
