RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Young Egyptians' perceptions, attitudes and knowledge of injuries
JF Injury Prevention
JO Inj Prev
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 348
OP 351
DO 10.1136/ip.2009.024224
VO 16
IS 5
A1 Hannah R Day
A1 Maged El-Setouhy
A1 Mohamed El-Shinawi
A1 Amr Assem
A1 Mona Ismail
A1 Marwa Salem
A1 Gordon S Smith
A1 Jon Mark Hirshon
YR 2010
UL http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/16/5/348.abstract
AB The objective of this study was to qualitatively evaluate young Egyptians' perceptions, attitudes, knowledge and behaviour towards injuries before implementation of an extensive questionnaire about injuries among Egyptian youth. In 2008, five focus groups of three to nine participants each were conducted in Cairo, Egypt in Arabic to evaluate young Egyptians' attitudes towards injuries, injury prevention, and their understanding of ‘accidents’ and fatalism. Participants were 14–26 years of age and were from medium to high socioeconomic status. Focus group participants noted that the concept of hadthah (‘accident’) signified an event determined by destiny, whereas esabah (‘injury’) was the result of human actions. The results of these focus groups indicate that young, educated Egyptians are interested in injury prevention programmes despite low confidence in the preventability of injuries.