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{"title":"Paediatric magnet ingestion persists worldwide despite increasing regulatory policies.","authors":"Javeria Khader, Elena De Loizaga, Alexandra Johns, Minna Wieck","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Paediatric magnet ingestion can have devastating consequences. To minimise this risk, many countries have policies to reduce exposure. This study seeks to summarise global reports of paediatric magnet ingestion and stringency of corresponding national policies.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>A comprehensive literature search was conducted in English and Spanish using PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Virtual Health Library, Clarivate-Web of Science, and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature. Included papers documented magnet ingestion in ages 0-18 years, from 2002 to 2024. Non-magnet foreign body ingestions were excluded. Policy searches were conducted online in English and Spanish. In total, 2998 articles were reviewed, with 204 papers undergoing full-text analysis. Data regarding incidence, demographics, and interventions required were extracted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 96 studies from countries in six continents documenting patients requiring hospitalisation and/or medical interventions were included. Studies reported between 1 and 5738 cases over a range of years, with several studies showing an increase in incidence over time. National policies placing warning labels, restricting sales, or banning high-powered magnets were described mostly in Western nations within the last 5 years.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Paediatric magnet ingestion incidence rates remain high despite an increase in regulations globally. Reported data likely underestimates the true extent of the problem since relevant reports are not available in many countries and many countries still lack national policies or data comparing pre- and post-policy implementation. There is insufficient data to determine the efficacy of any single type of regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144109799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trends in youth risk behaviours and firearm injury in the USA over 20 years.","authors":"Justin S Hatchimonji, Danielle R Hatchimonji, Lisa Allee, Dane R Scantling","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045161","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045161","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the USA. We hypothesised that high rates of risky behaviour in high school students are associated with firearm injury and death in this population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We obtained data from the Youth Behaviour Risk Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and combined it with data from the CDC Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, CDC Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research and American Community Survey, 2001-2020. We examined trends over time using a non-parametric test for trends.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The percentage of high school-aged youth carrying a weapon in the preceding 30 days ranged from 13.2% in 2019 to 18.5% in 2005, without a statistically significant trend over time (p=0.051). Those carrying a weapon to school peaked at 6.5% in 2005 and steadily downtrended to 2.8% in 2019 (p=0.004). Boys consistently reported higher rates of weapon carriage, with white boys reporting higher rates than black boys. Firearm homicides among adolescents 14-18 years showed no significant change, ranging from 4.0 per 100k in 2013 to 8.3 per 100k in 2020. This varied considerably by sex and race, with black boys suffering a rate of nearly 60 per 100 000 in 2020 and white girls rarely exceeding 1/100 000 during the study period.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Self-reported weapon carriage among teens in the USA has steadily downtrended over time. However, shooting injuries and deaths have not. While the former suggests progress, the latter remains concerning.</p><p><strong>Level of evidence: </strong>Level III; retrospective cohort study.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"236-241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Familial aggregation of traffic risky behaviours among pedestrians: a cross-sectional study in northwestern Iran.","authors":"Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Alireza Ghaffari, Leila R Kalankesh, Ali Hossein Zeinalzadeh, Saeed Dastgiri","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045137","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to assess the familial aggregation of traffic risky behaviours among pedestrians and describe the sociodemographic profile of pedestrians in northwestern Iran.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted among 933 pedestrians in 2023. Participants were selected using stratified random sampling. Traffic risky behaviour was measured using a validated instrument among heads of households and their first relatives. The generalised estimating equations were computed to estimate the adjusted OR and 95% CI for familial aggregation of traffic risky behaviours.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the total sample, 52.2% and 27.7% of the participants were male and aged 41-50, respectively. The majority of respondents were categorised in middle socioeconomic class (36.9%). The OR for familial aggregation of traffic risky behaviours was 1.42 (95% CI 1.07 to 1.89), indicating that the presence of traffic risky behaviours in at least one family member increased the likelihood of similar behaviour in other members. Fathers showing violation behaviours were associated by 1.98-fold increase in violation behaviours among their offspring. Similarly, the existence of violation behaviour in one sibling increased the odds of violation behaviour among other siblings (OR 1.99, 95% CI 1.18 to 3.73).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study revealed the familial aggregation of traffic risky behaviours of pedestrians, with father-offspring and sibling aggregations emerging as prominent components of familial aggregation. The findings suggested that family-based prevention programmes may yield greater effectiveness than individual-based approaches. As such, implementing targeted interventions focusing on family might have a substantial impact on reducing pedestrian traffic risky behaviours.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"223-228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171412/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141071080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of the non-application of the motorcycle male passenger restriction policy on the risk of homicides in Cali, Colombia.","authors":"Jorge Mena, Andrés Fandiño-Losada, María Isabel Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045068","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Restrictions of male passengers of motorcycles to prevent homicides is a long-standing policy in Cali, Colombia. For some periods of time, the policy was suspended and then put into action again. All these changes were never evaluated and there has been controversy due to the perception of citizens, specifically motorcycle users, that the law was properly implemented in some periods and poorly applied in others. Our aim was to examine the effect of the non-application of the motorcycle male passenger restriction policy on the risk of homicides in Cali, Colombia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Ecologic study conducted using an interrupted time series analysis. The main outcome was the aggregated daily counts of homicides. Secondary outcomes were the aggregated daily counts of homicides using a motorcycle and using motorcycle and firearm. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) were obtained by comparing periods of policy implementation with periods of lack of implementation in autoregressive negative binomial regression models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was an increased risk of homicides when the policy was not implemented (IRR=1.12; 1.05-1.19). There was no effect on the risk of homicides committed in motorcycles (IRR=0.98; 0.88-1.10) and when a motorcycle and firearm were used (IRR=0.99; 0.89-1.10).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The lack of implementation of the ban of motorcycle male passengers was associated with an increased risk of homicides. Our findings support the importance of this policy to prevent homicides in Cali, Colombia. Future work should examine how this policy influences other policies related to prevent homicide and violent risk-related behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"191-197"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141087056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring home fall events among infants and toddlers using social media information: an infodemiology study in China.","authors":"Jiang Tian, Peixia Cheng, Xiaonan Wang, Henry Xiang, Qi Gao, Huiping Zhu","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045014","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Practical interventions of fall prevention are challenging for infants and toddlers. This study aimed to explore specific details of falls that occurred at home for kids 0-3 years old using key information from social media platforms, which provided abundant data sources for fall events.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used internet-based search techniques to collect fall events information from 2013 to 2023. The search was restricted and implemented between 1 and 12 April 2023. Online platforms included Baidu, Weibo, WeChat, TikTok, Toutiao and Little Red Book. A qualitative descriptive approach was used to analyse the fall events and major factors, including the fall event time, child age, environmental factors and behavioural characteristics of children and caregivers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 1005 fall injury cases among infants and toddlers. Fall mechanisms included falls from household furniture (71.2%), falls from height (21.4%) and falls on the same level (7.4%). Environmental risk factors mainly consisted of not using or installing bed rails incorrectly, a gap between beds, unstable furniture, slippery ground and windows without guardrails. Behavioural factors included caregivers leaving a child alone, lapsed attention, turning around to retrieve something, misusing baby products, inadequately holding the child and falling asleep with children. Child behavioural factors included walking or running while holding an object in hand or mouth and underdeveloped walking skills.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Interventions for preventing falls should be designed specifically for Chinese families, especially considering family function in the context of Chinese culture. Social media reports could provide rich information for researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"229-235"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141071071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of different definitions of traumatic brain injury: implications for cohort characteristics and survival in women, Philadelphia, USA.","authors":"Bernadette A D'Alonzo, Abigail C Bretzin, Andrea Lc Schneider, Rebecca B Morse, Silvia P Canelón, Douglas J Wiebe, Mary Regina Boland","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045069","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an acute injury that is understudied in civilian cohorts, especially among women, as TBI has historically been considered to be largely a condition of athletes and military service people. Both the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Department of Defense (DOD)/Veterans Affairs (VA) have developed case definitions to identify patients with TBI from medical records; however, their definitions differ. We sought to re-examine these definitions to construct an expansive and more inclusive definition among a cohort of women with TBI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, we use electronic health records (EHR) from a single healthcare system to study the impact of using different case definitions to identify patients with TBI. Specifically, we identified adult female patients with TBI using the CDC definition, DOD/VA definition and a combined and expanded definition herein called the Penn definition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 4446 adult-female TBI patients meeting the CDC definition, 3619 meeting the DOD/VA definition, and together, 6432 meeting our expanded Penn definition that includes the CDC ad DOD/VA definitions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Using the expanded definition identified almost two times as many patients, enabling investigations to more fully characterise these patients and related outcomes. Our expanded TBI case definition is available to other researchers interested in employing EHRs to investigate TBI.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"198-204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Firearm ownership for protection in the USA, 2023: results from a nationally representative survey.","authors":"Michelle Degli Esposti, Rebeccah L Sokol, Daniel B Lee, Douglas J Wiebe, Rebecca M Cunningham, Alice Hawryszkiewycz, Patrick M Carter","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045244","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2024-045244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to characterise the motivations of firearm owners and examine whether firearm ownership motivations and carriage varied by state stand your ground law status.  METHODS: Using a nationally representative survey of US adults in 2023, we asked firearm owners (n=2477) about their firearm motivations and behaviours, including reason(s) for ownership.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of all firearm owners, 78.8% (95% CI 76.0% to 81.0%) owned a firearm for protection, and 58.1% (95% CI 54.3% to 62.0%) carried a firearm outside their home in the last 12 months. Firearm ownership for protection was not significantly associated with stand your ground laws, but firearm carriage was more prevalent in states with stand your ground laws (50.1% (95% CI 47.0% to 53.0%) vs 34.9% (95% CI 25.0% to 46.0%)). Gender (women) and race (minority groups) emerged as key correlates for firearm ownership for protection (vs other ownership motivations). For example, black and Asian women (98.8%) almost exclusively owned firearms for protection.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Protection was the dominant reason for firearm ownership in 2023, motivating 65 million Americans to own firearms and appealing to different strata of the population.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"257-261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141758547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predictive models of injury risk in male professional football players: a systematic review.","authors":"Francisco Martins, Krzysztof Przednowek, Francisco Santos, Cíntia França, Diogo Martinho, Élvio Rúbio Gouveia, Adilson Marques, Hugo Sarmento","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045322","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2024-045322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>One of the challenges for professional football players is injuries. Due to their influence on their teams, injuries greatly impact the sports business. This research aims to assess predictive models of injury risk in male professional football players.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic literature review was performed, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The search was conducted in the PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases. Two independent reviewers screened articles, assessed eligibility and extracted data. Methodological quality was determined by the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>26 studies met the inclusion criteria.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Various statistical techniques were used in research on injury prediction in professional football, with logistic regression being the most used. The assessment predictors, especially the area under the receiver operating characteristic Curve, showed significant variation, which indicates the prediction models' efficacy. The focus was frequently on lower limb injuries, where several risk predictors, including muscular strength, flexibility and global positioning system-derived data, were found to substantially impact the occurrence of injuries. Prominent predictors included age, position, physiological parameters, injury history and genetic polymorphisms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This comprehensive analysis highlights the complexity of injury prediction and reinforces the necessity for football injury research to adopt a multivariate approach with accuracy and comprehensiveness.</p><p><strong>Prospero registration number: </strong>CRD42023465524.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"177-190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142894261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Motor vehicle collision (MVC) emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Adrian Sammy, Alexia Medeiros, Brice Batomen, Linda Rothman, M Anne Harris, Daniel W Harrington, Colin Macarthur, Sarah A Richmond","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045269","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2024-045269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic policy response dramatically changed local transportation patterns. This project investigated the impact of COVID-19 policies on motor vehicle collision (MVC)-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Ontario.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected on MVC-related ED visits and hospitalisations in Ontario between March 2016 and December 2022. Using an interrupted time series design, negative binomial regression models were fitted to the pre-pandemic data, including monthly indicator variables for seasonality and accounting for autocorrelation. Extrapolations simulated expected outcome trajectories during the pandemic, which were compared with actual observed outcome counts using the overall per cent change and mean monthly difference. Data were modelled separately for vehicle occupants, pedestrians and cyclists (MVC and non-MVC injuries).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a 31.5% decrease in observed ED visits (95% CI -35.4 to -27.3) and a 6.0% decrease in hospitalisations (95% CI -13.2 to 1.6) among vehicle occupants, relative to expected counts during the pandemic. Results were similar for pedestrians. Among cyclist MVCs, there was an increase in ED visits (12.8%, 95% CI -8.2 to 39.4) and hospitalisations (46.0%, 95% CI 11.6 to 93.6). Among non-MVC cyclists, there was also an increase in ED visits (47.0%, 95% CI 12.5 to 86.8) and hospitalisations (50.1%, 95% CI 8.2 to 101.2).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We observed fewer vehicle occupant and pedestrian collision injuries than expected during the pandemic. By contrast, we observed more cycling injuries than expected, especially in cycling injuries not involving motor vehicles. These observations may be attributable to changes in transportation patterns during the pandemic and increased uptake of recreational cycling.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"211-216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141317242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Work-related road traffic accidents: emergence of new modes of personal journey - analysis based on data from a register of road traffic accidents in France.","authors":"Emmanuel Fort, Nicolas Connesson, Julien Brière, Amina Ndiaye, Blandine Gadegbeku, Barbara Charbotel","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045102","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>According to the 2018-2019 People Mobility Survey, work-related journeys (commuting and on-duty journeys) account for approximately 25% of all journeys. The use of non-motorised (nm) and motorised (m) personal mobility devices (PMDs) has steadily increased since their introduction into the French market in the last decade.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to describe the characteristics of work-related road accidents and their evolution since the introduction of new PMDs in France and the increase in the use of scooters.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study using data from the Rhône Road Trauma Registry. Data were collected from 2015 to 2020. We included the data for the victims aged 18-70 years who were injured in work-related road accidents.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 11 296 individuals aged 18-70 years who experienced work-related road accidents. An injury report was provided for a total of 11 277 patients. A total of 546 passengers and 78 drivers of other motorised vehicles (buses/trams, construction equipment and tractors) were excluded from the analysis. Seven patients died at the time of the accident and seven died after hospitalisation. Of the 10 653 (94.4%) victims, there were pedestrians (5.1%) or riders of bicycles (16.9%), scooters (3.8%), other PMDs (roller blades, skateboards, monowheels, gyropods and hoverboards; 0.4%) and motorised two wheelers (21.4%), or drivers of car (45.3%), and truck (1.5%). More than half of the scooter riders and 80% of other PMD riders were men. More than 60% of other PMD riders and 53% of scooter riders were under 34 years of age. Most scooter road accidents occurred during commuting (95.6%). 65% of the scooter accidents and 50% of other PMD accidents did not have opponents. Overall, one-quarter of the victims experienced accidents without opponents. Most scooter riders had injuries to their upper limbs (59.2%), lower limbs (46.8%), face (21.2%) or head (17.9%).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This original study on work-related road accidents allowed us to characterise the increase in work-related road accidents associated with new modes of travel, particularly scooters. The results observed for users of scooters and other PMDs in this study were generally consistent with those found in the scientific literature. Despite limited data, the results suggest that accidents involving scooters or other PMDs are of low severity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Many head injuries could be prevented with more widespread use of helmets, among scooter and other PMD users and bicycle users.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":"242-252"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141874729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}