Research Article
Unintentional Injuries and Sociodemographic Factors among Households in Ethiopia
Table 3
Mechanism and severity of unintentional injuries by sex, Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey, 2016.
| | Mechanism and severity of injury | Frequency (%) | | Male | Female | Total |
| | Mechanism of injury (n = 394) | | | | | Fall | 99 (65.1) | 53 (34.9) | 152 (38.6) | | Road incidents | 58 (60.4) | 38 (39.6) | 96 (24.4) | | Fire/Burn | 25 (52.1) | 23 (47.9) | 48 (12.2) | | Animal bite/Kicked | 14 (56.0) | 11 (44.0) | 25 (6.3) | | Drown and poisoning | 5 (50.0) | 5 (50.0) | 10 (2.5) | | Other | 41 (65.1) | 22 (34.9) | 63 (16.0) |
| | Severity of injury (n = 394) | | | | | Injured and alive# | 206 (61.7) | 132 (39.5) | 338 (85.8) | | Dead due to injury | 36 (64.3) | 20 (35.7) | 56 (14.2) |
| | Length of time unable to carry out normal daily activities (n = 334) | | | | | Less than 8 days | 47 (61.8) | 29 (30.2) | 76 (22.8) | | Between 8 to 30 days | 78 (67.8) | 37 (32.2) | 115 (34.4) | | Between 1 to 6 months | 53 (55.2) | 43 (44.8) | 96 (28.7) | | Longer than 6 months | 25 (61.0) | 16 (39.0) | 41 (12.3) | | Don’t know | 2 (33.3) | 4 (66.7) | 6 (1.8) |
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#One male and three female deaths were not due to injury and considered as alive after injury.
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