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ArticleBMC public health2013

Type A personality, hostility, time urgency and unintentional injuries among Chinese undergraduates: a matched case-control study.

Hongying Shi, Xinjun Yang, Jingjing Wang, Haiyang Xi, Chenping Huang, Jincai He, Maoping Chu, Guihua Zhuang

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Article in BMC public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Hongying ShiDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, China. zhuanggh@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.
Xinjun Yang
Jingjing Wang
Haiyang Xi
Chenping Huang
Jincai He
Maoping Chu
Guihua Zhuang
Wenzhou Medical University · CNXi'an Jiaotong University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAssociations between type A behaviour pattern (TABP) and injuries are inconsistent. These inconsistencies may be due to different effects of various components of TABP, namely time urgency/impatience, hostility and competitive drive. It is important to examine the relationship between the global TABP, its two components, and unintentional injuries, among undergraduates in China.

methodsOn the basis of a previous cross-sectional study, we conducted a matched case-control study. 253 cases and an equal number of age-, gender-, and major-matched controls were included. The questionnaire solicited socio-demographic information, the experience of injuries, the scale of TABP, and other potential confounding factors. Besides the correlation between the global TABP and injuries, the influences of the two components of TABP on injuries were also evaluated. Conditional logistic regression was used to determine the crude odds ratios (ORs) and adjusted ORs of injury events.

resultsA dose-response relationship was apparent among students who rated themselves higher on the TABP scale (P-value for trend, 0.002), with a crude OR of 2.93 (95% CI: 0.93-9.19) for injuries comparing those with TABP to those with type B behaviour pattern (TBBP). After adjustment for potential confounding factors, TABP remained statistically significant, and the adjusted OR was 5.52 (95% CI: 1.43-21.27); from a comparison of students with TABP to those with TBBP. A dose-response relationship was also apparent between the hostility component and nonfatal injuries, both in crude analysis and after adjusting for other confounders. The relationship between time-hurry and injuries was not statistically significant, based on univariate and multivariate analyses.

conclusionsBoth the global TABP and the hostility component were associated with a dose response increase in the risk of non-fatal unintentional injuries among Chinese undergraduates. Further studies need to be conducted to confirm or reject this correlation.

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HostilityType A PersonalityAccidentsAdultCase-Control StudiesChinaConfidence IntervalsFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsMaleOdds RatioPsychologyReference ValuesRisk AssessmentStudents

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