Table 1.
Injury characteristics by race/ethnicity
| Children of Colora,b | White Childrenb | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control N = 1580 |
COVID N = 1888 |
p value | Control N = 3703 |
COVID N = 4973 |
p value | |
| Intent of Injury, N (%) | ||||||
| Intentional | 216 (13.7) | 310 (16.4) | 0.03 | 192 (5.2) | 217 (4.4) | 0.08 |
| Unintentional | 1344 (85.1) | 1576 (83.5) | 0.22 | 3471 (93.7) | 4750 (95.5) | < 0.001 |
| Unknown | 20 (1.3) | 2 (0.1) | < 0.001 | 40 (1.1) | 6 (0.1) | < 0.001 |
| Type of Injury, N (%) | ||||||
| Blunt | 1179 (74.7) | 1342 (71.1) | 0.02 | 3051 (82.4) | 4068 (81.8) | 0.48 |
| Burn | 120 (7.6) | 156 (8.3) | 0.51 | 172 (4.7) | 307 (6.2) | 0.002 |
| Penetrating | 166 (10.5) | 305 (16.2) | < 0.001 | 259 (7.0) | 442 (8.9) | 0.002 |
| Unknown | 114 (7.2) | 85 (4.5) | 0.001 | 220 (5.9) | 156 (3.2) | < 0.001 |
| Mechanism of Injury, N (%) | ||||||
| Burn | 120 (7.6) | 156 (8.3) | 0.52 | 172 (4.6) | 307 (6.2) | 0.002 |
| Child Abuse | 88 (5.6) | 109 (5.8) | 0.86 | 118 (3.2) | 140 (2.8) | 0.35 |
| Cut/Pierce | 52 (3.3) | 78 (4.1) | 0.23 | 108 (2.9) | 160 (3.2) | 0.46 |
| Fall | 570 (36.1) | 607 (32.2) | 0.02 | 1652 (44.6) | 1969 (39.6) | < 0.001 |
| Firearm | 82 (5.2) | 170 (9.0) | < 0.001 | 19 (0.5) | 33 (0.7) | 0.45 |
| Motor Vehicle Crash | 210 (13.3) | 264 (14.0) | 0.60 | 399 (10.8) | 407 (8.2) | < 0.001 |
| All-Terrain Vehicle | 17 (1.1) | 38 (2.0) | 0.04 | 229 (6.2) | 471 (9.6) | < 0.001 |
| Bicycle | 76 (4.8) | 126 (6.7) | 0.02 | 215 (5.8) | 439 (8.8) | < 0.001 |
| Pedestrian | 80 (5.1) | 54 (2.9) | 0.001 | 69 (1.9) | 76 (1.5) | 0.26 |
| Struck By/Against | 142 (9.0) | 107 (5.7) | < 0.001 | 334 (9.0) | 377 (7.6) | 0.02 |
| Unknown | 141 (8.9) | 179 (9.5) | 0.62 | 388 (10.5) | 594 (11.9) | 0.04 |
| Injury Severity Score, N (%) | ||||||
| 0–14 | 1375 (91.8) | 1691 (90.4) | 0.35 | 3209 (92.6) | 4611 (93.0) | 0.74 |
| 15–24 | 74 (4.9) | 105 (5.6) | 164 (4.7) | 225 (4.5) | ||
| ≥ 25 | 49 (3.3) | 75 (4.0) | 93 (2.7) | 122 (2.5) | ||
| Mortality, N (%) | ||||||
| Alive | 1556 (98.5) | 1851 (98.0) | 0.39 | 3678 (99.3) | 4949 (99.5) | 0.30 |
| Dead | 24 (1.5) | 37 (2.0) | 25 (0.7) | 24 (0.5) | ||
Bold p-values represent statistically significant results
aChildren of color = children that self-reported as Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Native American, or ‘other’
bWhen a variable with more than two groups was statistically significant, comparisons of binomial proportions were completed to understand which category was statistically significant