Mean and median hospitalisation days for admitted in-patients and disability days of fully recovered injured persons, by mechanism and activity during injury event, Khartoum State study sample, Sudan, 2010
| Accessed formal healthcare (n) | Hospitalisation days for admitted | Total (n) | Unadjusted p Value* | Adjusted p Value*† | Disability days (all persons injured) | Total (n) | Unadjusted p Value* | Adjusted p Value*† | Total injured (n) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Median | Mean | Median | |||||||||
| Totals | 260 | 10.5 | 1.7 | 92 | 14.9 | 6.6 | 294 | 441 | ||||
| Mechanism of injury | 0.10 | 0.03 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| Falls | 60 | 14.7 | 2.2 | 28 | 17.0 | 7.7 | 79 | 129 | ||||
| Road traffic crashes | 57 | 13.8 | 3.0 | 30 | 25.8 | 9.5 | 52 | 72 | ||||
| Violence | 6 | 8.4 | 1.4 | 7 | 15.2 | 7.3 | 25 | 38 | ||||
| Burns | 23 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 10 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 26 | 45 | ||||
| Mechanical injuries | 77 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 11 | 10.6 | 6.3 | 59 | 87 | ||||
| Poisoning | 16 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 3 | 11.5 | 5.8 | 33 | 28 | ||||
| Others | 17 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 3 | 12.3 | 7.0 | 20 | 25 | ||||
| Activity | <0.001 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.59 | ||||||||
| Paid work | 76 | 19.6 | 1.9 | 38 | 19.2 | 7.2 | 65 | 105 | ||||
| Vital activities | 39 | 10.9 | 5.5 | 10 | 16.9 | 5.6 | 47 | 74 | ||||
| Unpaid work | 37 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 12 | 11.7 | 5.9 | 48 | 65 | ||||
| Sports/leisure/play | 71 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 23 | 14.4 | 6.5 | 98 | 144 | ||||
| Education | 8 | – | – | 0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5 | 9 | ||||
| Other | 29 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 9 | 11.3 | 5.8 | 31 | 44 | ||||
Missing data was excluded from the analysis.
*p Value for homogeneity of means over categories.
†Adjustment for all factors included in tables 3 and 4.