Since November 2014, Inserm invites more than 100,000 French people to participate in a study on home accidents. And if only 14,000 people answered the online questionnaire (MAVIE), the first results were made public on May 18, 2015.
In total, only 1% of those questioned declared having undergone a road accident during the past year and 1% an occupational accident. On the other hand, 10% of those polled claim to have been victims of an accident in everyday life. Behind this name hide many areas, such as domestic life, sport, DIY, leisure or even the school environment.
This phenomenon is such that each year, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) estimates that 20,000 people die as a result of these accidents, which is the third leading cause of death in France, after cancer and cardiovascular disease.
According to the first results, sports-related accidents are the most frequently cited, with an incidence twice as high in men than in women. Team ball sports lead the way with 19%, followed by racquet sports (18%) and combat sports (11.5%). Walking and jogging, on the other hand, only represent 6% of accidents in daily life, although they are among the three sports most practiced by those surveyed along with swimming.
People with mental or motor disabilities and children are particularly affected by everyday accidents.
The authors of the study recall that all French people are strongly invited to participate in the study by completing the questionnaire of the MAVIE observatory site, in order to expand the data and lead to a large-scale scientific study.
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