Abstract

Purpose
This study was designed to evaluate the risk factors of injury and pre-hospital emergency service system in school. Methods: A designed questionnaire was made up by nurse-teachers. We described the frequency and the distribution by types of school, gaining method of information about emergency care, education programs and concerns about injury prevention, transportation methods, and number of injured victim. After all school were divided with two groups such as high and low injury group based on median points of injury count, the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of each risk factor were measured using the multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: 246 female nurse-teachers were responded. Of them, 143 worked at primary school, 50 at middle school, 29 at high school, and 18 at special school, respectively. Injury was the second common cause visiting to nursing room. 43.67% of victims were directly transported by nurse-teacher. Degree of attention about injury prevention was relatively high (63.0%) but education program was not sufficient (83.0%). There were no oxygen devices, ventilatory devices, airway maintenance devices, electrocardiography equipments, and critical drugs except immobilization devices, stretchers, oral antibiotics, and fluids in most schools. Mean number of victim visiting to nursing room due to injury was 2.6 per a day per 1,000 stu-dents. Adjusting for related factors, ‘disordered shopping and parking area to near school’ (adjusted OR 1.840; 95% CI 1.077~3.143), ‘risky window without safety equipment’(adjusted OR 1.786; 95% CI 1.019~3.131), and ‘when number of involved indoor condition was increased by one’(adjusted OR 1.255 95% CI 1.004~1.568) were significant risk factors on high injury incidence. Conclusion: Injury was one of the most common health problems in school but there was no equipped for emergency care. ‘Disordered street near to school’and ‘risky indoor conditions’ were significant risk factors on school injury.

• Keywords: School, Emergency Service System, Injury, Risk factor