Examining the relationship between food insecurity and causes of injury in Canadian adults and adolescents

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Rate per 10,000 person-years of past-year ED visits in the overall sample

	Food-secure	Marginal FI	Moderate FI	Severe FI	Total
All-cause ED visit	10,526	12830*	15340*	20252*	11,090
Injury-related ED visits	1224	1458*	1760*	2291*	1286
Intentional injuries	20	55*	79*	131*	27
Self-harm	6	18	22*	37*	8
Violence	14	37*	57*	93*	19
Non-intentional injuries	930	55*	79*	131*	967
Fall	302	338	409*	532*	315
On same level	136	158	169*	194*	140
On stairs	39	47	73*	104*	43
Others	128	133	167*	233*	132
Medical complication	110	121	141	190*	114
Surgical	92	88	117	151*	95
Non-surgical	64	55	90	95	66
Struck-by	106	139*	162*	183*	112
Falling objects	19	26	29	32	20
In sports	41	47	43	32	41
In non-sports	52	78*	103*	160*	59
Transport	85	116*	125*	175*	90
Pedestrian or cyclist	19	24	35	35*	20
Motor vehicle	63	87	82	136*	67
Overexertion	98	112	153*	177*	103
Animal bite or sting	42	53	52	80*	44
Skin piercing	27	32	30	58*	28
Poisoning	26	25	45	48	27
Other non-intentional injuries	373	444*	501*	655*	389
Number of respondents	188,900	7600	10,400	5400	212,300

Notes: ED = emergency department. FI = food insecurity. Non-intentional injuries included unintentional injuries and a negligible share of injuries with “undetermined intent”. All rates of the food-insecure categories were significantly different from those of the food-secure at p < 0.05 are denoted with asterisk *. All trends were significant at p < 0.05 except “being struck in sports” with p = 0.77, “poisoning” with p = 0.067, and “non-surgical medical complications” with p = 0.15. “Non-motor transport” had p = 0.057 for moderate FI vs p = 0.039 for severe FI; the rate was 35 per 10,000 person-years for both after rounding. Rates from subcategories do not necessarily sum to the exact rates from their corresponding categories due to rounding

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