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Volume 8, Issue 3-4, December 2018, Pages 171 - 175

An Estimation of the Burden of Sports Injuries among African Adolescents

Authors
Drake G. LeBrun1, 2, *, Julius del Rosario3, John D. Kelly4, Sherry M. Wren5, David A. Spiegel6, Nyengo Mkandawire7, 8, Richard A. Gosselin9, Adam L. Kushner10, 11, 12
1Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
2Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Blvd., Jordan Medical Education Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
3School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 220 South 33rd Street, 107 Towne Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
4Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 235 S 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
5Department of Surgery, Stanford University, School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
6Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
7Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, P/B 360, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi
8Flinders University School of Medicine, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia
9Institute of Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, 2550 23rd Street, Building 9, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
10Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 177 Fort Washington Ave., New York, NY 10032, USA
11Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
12Surgeons OverSeas, 99 Avenue B, Suite 5E, New York, NY 10009, USA
* Corresponding author. Email: Drake.Lebrun@uphs.upenn.edu
Corresponding Author
Drake G. LeBrun
Received 16 March 2017, Accepted 25 October 2017, Available Online 31 December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/j.jegh.2017.10.010How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Sports; injury; adolescent; Africa
Abstract

The extent to which sports injuries contribute to the burden of injury among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is unknown. The goal of this study was to estimate the incidence of sports injuries among adolescents in Africa. Data from the World Health Organization Global School-Based Student Health surveys were used to estimate the annual number of African adolescents sustaining sports injuries. Gender-stratified injury rates were calculated and applied to every African country’s adolescent population to estimate country-specific and continent-wide injury totals. A total of 21,858 males and 24,691 females from 14 countries were included in the analysis. Country-specific annual sports injury rates ranged from 13.5% to 38.1% in males and 5.2% to 20.2% in females. Weighted average sports injury rates for males and females were 23.7% (95% CI 23.1%–24.2%) and 12.5% (95% CI 12.1%–12.9%), respectively. When these rates were extrapolated to the adolescent populations of the African continent, an estimated 15,477,798 (95% CI 15,085,955–15,804,333) males and 7,943,625 (95% CI 7,689,429–8,197,821) females sustained sports injuries. Our findings suggest that over 23 million African adolescents sustained sports injuries annually. Further work will help to more precisely define the burden of sports injuries in LMICs and the role that surgery can play in mitigating this burden.

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Journal
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Volume-Issue
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Pages
171 - 175
Publication Date
2018/12/31
ISSN (Online)
2210-6014
ISSN (Print)
2210-6006
DOI
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© 2018 Atlantis Press International B.V.
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