Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Jamaica, 2017

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JAM_2017_GSHS_v01_M

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National Council on Drug Abuse

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Serious injury type (Q18)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1491

Invalid: 176

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. An injury is serious when it makes you miss at least one full day of usual activities (such as school, sports, or a job) or requires treatment by a doctor or nurse.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, what was the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1062	71.2%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	60	4%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	119	8%
4	Concussion/head injury	48	3.2%
5	I had a gunshot wound	7	0.5%
6	I had a bad burn	42	2.8%
7	I was poisoned	10	0.7%
8	Something else happened to me	143	9.6%
Sysmiss		176

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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