Use or protective equipment by in-line skaters
| Helmet use | Elbow pads | Knee pads | Wrist guards | Any equipment | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unweighted No | % Use | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | % Use | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | % Use | Adjusted odds ratio(95% CI) | % Use | Adjusted odds ratio(95% CI) | % Use | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | |
| *Reference category. | |||||||||||
| †Metropolitan areas included the greater Vancouver and Victoria areas. CI = confidence interval. Statistically significant results are in bold. | |||||||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Male* | 511 | 12 | — | 16 | — | 9 | — | 20 | — | 33 | — |
| Female | 354 | 14 | 1.32 (0.73 to 2.39) | 11 | 0.69 (0.35 to 1.36) | 12 | 1.99 (1.06 to 3.76) | 32 | 2.93 (1.87 to 4.59) | 40 | 1.55 (1.01 to 2.37) |
| Age (years) | |||||||||||
| ≤15* | 317 | 19 | — | 9 | — | 6 | — | 13 | — | 28 | — |
| 16–30 | 425 | 7 | 0.29 (0.15 to 0.55) | 14 | 1.10 (0.56 to 2.17) | 9 | 1.27 (0.55 to 2.86) | 24 | 2.63 (1.43 to 4.76) | 35 | 1.25 (0.82 to 1.92) |
| 31+ | 129 | 16 | 0.71 (0.36 to 1.39) | 26 | 2.33 (1.02 to 5.26) | 26 | 4.55 (1.92 to 11.11) | 57 | 10.01 (5.0 to 20.02) | 59 | 3.33 (1.89 to 5.88) |
| Site type | |||||||||||
| Recreational* | 396 | 13 | — | 17 | — | 15 | — | 38 | — | 42 | — |
| Neighborhood | 121 | 16 | 0.95 (0.46 to 1.96) | 6 | 0.31 (0.13 to 0.76) | 3 | 0.18 (0.06 to 0.54) | 13 | 0.34 (0.17 to 0.69) | 26 | 0.52 (0.30 to 0.92) |
| Commuter | 83 | 10 | 0.96 (0.32 to 2.86) | 19 | 1.41 (0.57 to 3.45) | 8 | 0.57 (0.20 to 1.61) | 10 | 0.17 (0.08 to 0.41) | 31 | 0.66 (0.32 to 1.39) |
| Community | 277 | 10 | 0.66 (0.33 to 1.30) | 7 | 0.42 (0.18 to 0.98) | 5 | 0.40 (0.19 to 0.86) | 19 | 0.46 (0.26 to 0.83) | 33 | 0.74 (0.46 to 1.18) |
| Region† | |||||||||||
| Non-metropolitan* | 333 | 13 | — | 9 | — | 8 | — | 25 | — | 32 | — |
| Metropolitan | 544 | 12 | 1.16 (0.68 to 1.99) | 17 | 1.86 (0.99 to 3.49) | 12 | 1.58 (0.75 to 3.33) | 25 | 0.98 (0.60 to 1.61) | 39 | 1.36 (0.92 to 2.02) |