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Injuries caused by pets in Asian urban households: a cross-sectional telephone survey
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OBJECTIVES: Little is known about pet-related injuries in Asian populations. This study primarily aimed to investigate the incidence rate of pet-related household injuries in Hong Kong, an urban Chinese setting.
SETTING: Cantonese-speaking non-institutionalised population of all ages in Hong Kong accessible by telephone land-line.
PARTICIPANTS: A total of 43 542 telephone numbers were dialled and 6570 residents successfully completed the interviews.
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Data of pet-related household injuries in the previous 12 months, pet ownership and socio-demographic characteristics were collected with a questionnaire. Direct standardisation of the incidence rates of pet-related household injuries by gender and age to the 2009 Hong Kong Population Census was estimated. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to estimate risks of socio-demographic factors and pet ownership for the injury.
RESULTS: A total of 84 participants experienced pet-related household injuries in the past 12 months, with an overall person-based incidence rate of 1.28%. The majority of the victims were injured once (69.6%). Cats (51.6%) were the most common pets involved. Pet owners were at an extremely higher risk after controlling for other factors (adjusted OR: 52.0, 95% CI 22.1 to 98.7). Females, the unmarried, those with higher monthly household income and those living in lower-density housing were more likely to be injured by pets.
CONCLUSIONS: We project a pet-related household injury incidence rate of 1.24% in the general Hong Kong population, with 86 334 residents sustaining pet-related injuries every year. Pet ownership puts people at extremely high risk, especially the unmarried. Further studies should focus on educating pet owners to reduce pet-related injuries in urban Greater China.
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012813
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- BMJ Publishing Group
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- BMJ Open More from this journal
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- 7
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- 1
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- e012813
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-10
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2044-6055
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English
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- 2017
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- © Chan, et al. Published by BMJ Publishing Group. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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