Study-Related Work and Commuting Accidents among Students at the University of Mainz from 12/2012 to 12/2018: Identification of Potential Risk Groups and Implications for Prevention

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Study-Related Work and Commuting Accidents among Students at the University of Mainz from 12/2012 to 12/2018: Identification of Potential Risk Groups and Implications for Prevention

Jennifer L Reichel Pavel Dietz Stephan Letzel Antonia M. Werner

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Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty student Adolescent Universities injury Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis education college Poison control lcsh:Medicine Transportation Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Environmental health Germany student health Epidemiology Injury prevention medicine Accidents Occupational Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Students Retrospective Studies lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics 030208 emergency & critical care medicine accident Middle Aged Health promotion Work (electrical)Accidents Female campus epidemiology

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Background: Universities represent an important setting of everyday life for health promotion. The aim of the present study was to assess whether university students of specific disciplines might have an increased risk for having a study-related work accident and to analyze what types of study-related work accidents occur most frequently. Furthermore, knowledge regarding study-related commuting accidents will be provided by identifying places where study-related commuting accidents might occur most frequently and on potential types of commuting (walking vs. biking) which might be associated with an increased risk for having a study-related commuting accident. Methods: Retrospective analyses of a dataset provided by the Accident Insurance Fund of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, including all accidents that happened at the University of Mainz (JGU) between December 2012 and December 2018 were performed. Binominal tests were computed to reveal whether the frequency of study-related work accidents in students affiliated with a specific faculty or institution differs significantly from the expected frequency of all reported study-related work accidents. Results: Overall, 1285 study-related accidents were analyzed&mdash

year	journal	country	edition	language
2020-05-23	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

10.3390/ijerph17103676 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3676