Table 5.
Management after unintentional injuries among children and socioeconomic factors
| Factors | Overall (n=976) | Unintentional injury | |||||||
| Visit hospital | %* | Observation at home | %* | Others | %* | Total | %* | ||
| (n=112) | (n=88) | (n=1) | (n=201) | ||||||
| Family type | |||||||||
| Two parents | 936 | 109 | 11.6 | 85 | 9.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 195 | 20.8 |
| Single parent | 40 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 | 7.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 15.0 |
| Age of mother | |||||||||
| <29 years | 109 | 8 | 7.3 | 18 | 16.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 26 | 23.9 |
| 30–39 years | 579 | 63 | 10.9 | 52 | 9.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 115 | 19.9 |
| ≥40 years | 288 | 41 | 14.2 | 18 | 6.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 60 | 20.8 |
| Age of father | |||||||||
| <29 years | 68 | 5 | 7.4 | 9 | 13.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 14 | 20.6 |
| 30–39 years | 462 | 51 | 11.0 | 42 | 9.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 93 | 20.1 |
| ≥40 years | 446 | 56 | 12.6 | 37 | 8.3 | 1 | 0.2 | 94 | 21.1 |
| Education of mother | |||||||||
| High school | 277 | 27 | 9.7 | 30 | 10.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 58 | 20.9 |
| Business technical school or junior college | 351 | 53 | 15.1 | 29 | 8.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 82 | 23.4 |
| College | 348 | 32 | 9.2 | 29 | 8.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 61 | 17.5 |
| Education of father | |||||||||
| High school | 281 | 39 | 13.9 | 28 | 10.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 68 | 24.2 |
| Business technical school or junior college | 150 | 19 | 12.7 | 11 | 7.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 30 | 20.0 |
| College | 545 | 54 | 9.9 | 49 | 9.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 103 | 18.9 |
| Number of children | |||||||||
| 1 | 375 | 26 | 6.9 | 38 | 10.1 | 1 | 0.3 | 65 | 17.3 |
| 2 | 447 | 61 | 13.6 | 40 | 8.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 101 | 22.6 |
| ≥3 | 154 | 25 | 16.2 | 10 | 6.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 35 | 22.7 |
| Infant (<1 year old) | |||||||||
| Yes | 170 | 13 | 7.6 | 18 | 10.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 31 | 18.2 |
| No | 806 | 99 | 12.3 | 70 | 8.7 | 1 | 0.1 | 170 | 21.1 |
| Older siblings (>6 years old) | |||||||||
| Yes | 374 | 55 | 14.7 | 28 | 7.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 | 22.2 |
| No | 602 | 57 | 9.5 | 60 | 10.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 118 | 19.6 |
| Living with grandmother | |||||||||
| Yes | 128 | 13 | 10.2 | 13 | 10.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 26 | 20.3 |
| No | 848 | 99 | 11.7 | 75 | 8.8 | 1 | 0.1 | 175 | 20.6 |
| Living with grandfather | |||||||||
| Yes | 362 | 44 | 12.2 | 35 | 9.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 79 | 21.8 |
| No | 614 | 68 | 11.1 | 53 | 8.6 | 1 | 0.2 | 122 | 19.9 |
| Mother’s employment status | |||||||||
| Employed | 391 | 53 | 13.6 | 31 | 7.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 84 | 21.5 |
| Unemployed | 585 | 59 | 10.1 | 57 | 9.7 | 1 | 0.2 | 117 | 20.0 |
| Father’s employment status | |||||||||
| Employed | 964 | 110 | 11.4 | 87 | 9.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 198 | 20.5 |
| Unemployed | 12 | 2 | 16.7 | 1 | 8.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 25.0 |
| Use of sitter, kindergarten or nursery school | |||||||||
| Yes | 197 | 32 | 16.2 | 16 | 8.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 48 | 24.4 |
| No | 779 | 80 | 10.3 | 72 | 9.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 153 | 19.6 |
| Type of housing | |||||||||
| House | 516 | 73 | 14.1 | 37 | 7.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 110 | 21.3 |
| Apartment | 460 | 39 | 8.5 | 51 | 11.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 91 | 19.8 |
| Annual income | |||||||||
| <3 million | 117 | 14 | 12.0 | 11 | 9.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 21.4 |
| 3–5 million | 366 | 36 | 9.8 | 41 | 11.2 | 1 | 0.3 | 78 | 21.3 |
| >5 million | 493 | 62 | 12.6 | 36 | 7.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 98 | 19.9 |
*The proportion of the number of unintentional injuries to the overall number of each socioeconomic facto.