Injury Pattern, Personality and Risk Perception in Rural Aborigines, Urban Aborigines, and Han People

• Main Authors: Chia-Huei Chiu, 邱佳惠
• Other Authors: Wen-Ta Chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66314473914172685955

碩士 === 台北醫學院 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 89 === The effect of injury prevention has been shown on the dramatic change of the ranking of injury of the leading cause of death. However, under the same policy, injury is still the most important cause of death among the aborigines. Therefore, efforts should been made not only on external, but also internal factors. The objective of this study is to discuss the association among injury pattern, personality and risky behavior in rural aborigines, urban aborigines and Han people. Face-to-face interview was held among rural aborigine in Hualien county, urban aborigine and Han people in Taipei county with structured questionnaire, which includes socio-demograghic data, incidence of injury, alcohol diagnosis and personality. Personality contains injury perception, social competition and risk perception. Injury pattern of the three groups were alike but the incidence rate of rural aborigine was much higher than urban aborigine and Han people (22.5%, 15.6% and 16.7%). As to personality, Han people scored highest in injury perception, while urban aborigine scored highest in social competition and rural aborigine scored highest in risk perception. Age of 40-49, unmarried are both risk factors of injury, and people who scored higher in social competition are also tends to get injured. A transition trend of injury was also observed in rural aborigine, urban aborigine and Han people. In the three risky behavior models of drinking, smoking, and betel nut chewing, race is an important risk factor and rural aborigine have highest risk to have risky behavior. In conclusion, the three groups present obviously different in this study and the transition trend indicated that migration does have great influence on personality and perception also a risk factor of injury.