Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Kuwait, 2015

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KWT_2015_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury broken bone (Q18)

Data file: KWT2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 3182

Invalid: 455

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	1909	60%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	297	9.3%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	156	4.9%
4	Concussion/head injury	83	2.6%
5	I had a gunshot wound	29	0.9%
6	I had a bad burn	52	1.6%
7	I was poisoned	61	1.9%
8	Something else happened to me	595	18.7%
Sysmiss		455

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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