部分卫生从业人员及大学生对“意外伤害”用语含义认知的调查

Different Perceptions of the Conventional Chinese Translation of the Term 'Unintentional Injury' among Public Health-relevant Practitioners and College Students

目的 了解卫生从业人员和大学生对“unintentional injury”的常用译名“意外伤害”的感知.方法 采取分层整群抽样的方法对卫生从业人员、大学生进行调查.大学生、卫生从业人员对“意外伤害”一词表达的可预防性的看法.采用卡方检验比较两类人群对于“意外伤害”一词可预防性的认知差异,检验水准定为α=0.05.结果 本次调查共回收卫生从业人员有效问卷335份,男性占46.0％;大学生有效问卷684份,男性占46.5％.10％的卫生从业人员和19％的大学生认为“发生意外伤害是个人倒霉”,12％的卫生从业人员和19％的大学生不清楚意外伤害是否可以预防,两类人群对“意外伤害”可预防性的判断差别有统计学意义(x2=24.793,P＜0.05).不同类别的卫生从业人员之间和不同专业大学生之间对“意外伤害”可预防性的判断均无统计学差别.结论 建议用“无意伤害”或“非故意性伤害”取代“意外伤害”这一不当译名.

Objective to compare the different perceptions among public health -relevant practitioners and college students of the current Chinese translation('ylwai shanghai')of the term 'unintentional injury',which impliesa meaning in Chinese that an injury happened by chance.Methods Stratified and cluster samplings were used to select health practitioners and college students.A survey was carried out among the partieipants about the preventability implied by the Chinese translation of'unintentional injury'.Chi-square test was employed to compare the preventability perceived by participants of the two groups,with a=0.05.Results 335 and 684 valid completed questionnaires were colledted from health-relevant practitioners(of 46.0% were males)and college students (of 46.5%were males),respectively.10% of health practitioner responders and 19% of college responders understood that the occurrence of 'yiwai shanghai'was due to a bad luck.Another 12% of health practitioner responders and 19% of college responders replied that they did not know ifa'yiwai shanghai'can be prevented.The difference of the two percentages(12% vs 19%)is statistically significant (x^=24.793,p<0.05).The differences among the sub-groups of each group ,however,were not statistically significant. Conelusion The results lead to a suggestion of changing the Chinese tranalation of 'unintentional injury'from the eurrent 'yiwai shanghai'or 'feiguyi shanghai',the latter two articulate the 'unintentional'meaning of the term.