Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Trinidad and Tobago, 2017

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TTO_2017_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury broken bone (Q18)

Data file: TTO2017 Trinidad

Overview

Valid: 2518

Invalid: 318

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	1750	69.5%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	164	6.5%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	187	7.4%
4	Concussion/head injury	56	2.2%
5	I had a gunshot wound	8	0.3%
6	I had a bad burn	41	1.6%
7	I was poisoned	10	0.4%
8	Something else happened to me	302	12%
Sysmiss		318

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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