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All Ireland Traveller Health Study Safety General Summary Some 12% of respondents in ROI, and 8.1% in NI, reported one or more injuries serious enough to interfere with daily activities in the last 2 years. This finding was strongly age-related, rising to a 25.3% of the over-65 age group in ROI. Whilst the majority were accidental (65.7% in ROI and 78.1% in NI), there were an appreciable number of reported non-accidental injuries, particularly among women in ROI (38.8%) and in the middle-age groups. The most frequently cited location for an accident was in the home (42.9% in ROI and 51.6% in NI) and the pattern differed somewhat by sex and according to age group. Most were treated in accident and emergency service (40.6% in ROI and 34.4% in NI), followed by the GP (28.9% in ROI and 31.3% in NI), a similar pattern according to sex and age group. A majority of respondents (88% in ROI but 63.5% in NI) reported regular use of a seat belt while driving in a car or van. Commentary The Traveller groups appeared to have overall fewer injuries than the SLAN 2002 medical card holders group (Table 257). Notable is the high frequency of non-accidental injury in the Traveller groups, especially in ROI. Using a different questionnaire item, 7.6% of men and 6.7% of women of the SLAN 2007 medical card holders reported an injury in the last 1 year which necessitated a medical consultation (11% and 7% respectively in the general SLAN 2007 population: data not included in the table because of the variation in data items). Compared with 88% in ROI and 63.5% in NI, 84.6% of SLAN 2002 medical card holders reported that they always wear seatbelts whilst in the front of the car. Table 257: Accidents in the last 2 years, in AITHS and SLAN Travellers (ROI) Travellers (NI) SLAN 2002 medical card holders Suffered an accident in the last 2 years which interfered with daily activities Most recent injury was nonaccidental Male (n=692) Female (n=943) Male (n=191) Female (n=203) Male (n=626) Female (n=921) 13.2% 11.1% 8.4% 7.9% 14.3% 16.5% 29.3% 38.8% 25.0% 18.8% 5.6% 13.4% 214
Health Survey Findings General Exercise and Household Physical Activity General Summary Most AITHS respondents reported that they undertook physical activity fewer than 3 times per week, with reported rates of strenuous activity fewer than 3 times per week of 76.6% in ROI and 76.3% in NI, of moderate activity of 60.1% in ROI and 75.1% in NI and of mild activity of 55.6% in ROI and 67.4% in NI. Men were more active than women. A majority of respondents (70.2% in ROI and 69.9% in NI) reported using a car to go shopping. Rates were comparable between men and women, but were inversely related to age, with older respondents less likely to use a car and more likely to go on foot. A quarter of respondents (25.5% in ROI and 26.3% in NI) reported spending less than an hour per week watching television or playing computer games but most men and women and all age groups in both jurisdictions reported appreciable time doing so. Commentary The AITHS participants report overall more leisure time physical activity than do the medical card holders in SLAN 2002 and 2007, and the general population in SLAN 2002 (Table 19). In the SLAN 2002 general population, 72.3% of men and 76.4% of women use the car to go shopping, comparable with reported use in AITHS of 70.2% in ROI (70.6% in men and 69.9% in women), and 69.9% in NI (74.5% in men and 65.5% in women). Marginally lower car usage was described in the SLAN 2002 medical card holders: 64.2% in men and 65.3% in women. Similar to the figures quoted in the AITHS, 30.8% of the SLAN 2002 general population and 22.8% of the SLAN 2002 medical holder population report watching less than 1 hour per week of television. Table 258: Leisure-time physical activity 3 or more times per week, by intensity of activity in the AITHS and selected SLAN studies Travellers (ROI) Travellers (NI) SLAN 2002 Medical card holders Male (n=577) Female (n=769) Male (n=179) Female (n=186) Male (n=669) Female (n=970) SLAN 2002 general population Male (n=2,429) Female (n=3,502) SLAN 2007 medical card holders Male (n=1,240) Female (n=2,088) Strenuous 30.6% 17.6% 29.3% 17.8% 5.8% 3.2% 15.2% 6.6% 7.3% 4.2% exercise Moderate 41.9% 38.4% 26.1% 23.8% 16.9% 23.1% 25.9% 37.3% 21.6% 20.8% exercise Mild 46.8% 42.7% 32.4% 32.8% 29.3% 30.5% 21.5%* 21.6%* 46.4% 45.7% exercise * * ‘Mild exercise most days’ 215
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