Article ID: | iaor20108261 |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 228 |
End Page Number: | 234 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Journal: | Accident Analysis and Prevention |
Authors: | Stenbacka Marlene, Leifman Anders, Dalal Koustuv, Jansson Bjarne |
Keywords: | demography, prison, psychology, alcohol |
Injuries represent an important cause of mortality among young adults. We studied the associations between adolescents’ family, psychological, behavioural and drug‐related risk factors in relation to unintentional injury death. A population‐based cohort of 49,411 Swedish conscripts aged 18–20 years was followed for 35 years. The end‐point of study was injury death up to 2004. The relationship between two family, four psychological and eight behavioural risk factors and injury death were analysed with Cox proportional hazards analyses and