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Childhood accidents and their relationship with problem behaviour (No.07)

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Table of contents

  • 1. Executive Summary
  • 1.1 Background
  • 1.2 Aims
  • 1.3 Methods
  • 1.4 Results
  • 1.5 Conclusions
  • 2. Introduction
  • 2.1 Background
  • 2.2 Problem behaviour and accidents
  • 2.3 Socio-economic and environmental factors
  • 2.4 Traffic and non-traffic accidents
  • 2.5 Aims and objectives
  • 3. Methods and Sample
  • 3.1 Design and overview of methods
  • 3.2 Sample
  • 3.3 Measurement overview
  • 3.4 Details of the measures
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Descriptive statistics
  • 4.2 Associations between variables and accident rates
  • 4.3 Modelling demographic and exposure as risk factors
  • 4.4 Risk factors for accidents controlling for external variables
  • 4.5 Social values, problem behaviour and accidents
  • 4.6 Explaining social values, problem behaviour and risky road user behaviour
  • 4.7 Attentional ability and accident risk
  • 4.8 Age trends
  • 4.9 Traffic and non-traffic accidents
  • 5. Discussion
  • 5.1 Summary of findings
  • 5.2 Methodological issues
  • 5.3 Implications of the findings
  • 5.4 Conclusions
  • 6. References
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