There are certain types of play that are more likely to lead to unintentional childhood injuries and there are some challenges associated with the prevention of these injuries. Brussoni, M., Olsen, L., Pike, I., and Sleet, D. (2012) suggest that Free play, an activity that all children do in their daily life, has been classified as the importance source of children’s growth and education. Through playing, children are able to learn how to be creative, how to communicate socially and improves their competence physically (Brussoni, M. et al., 2012). However, there are risk that are associated with free play that will challenge the children’s knowledge in managing all sorts of new situation and learning how to overcome the barriers that they might
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Unintentional injuries of children during their outdoor free play may end up into two different result such as major and minor. The major result usually happens in a worst scenario which is death. Hoffnung, M., Hoffnung, R. J., Seifert, K. L., Hine, A., Ward, L., Pausé, C., and Smith, R. B. (2016) explains that accidents are the main cause of children’s death which is linked to injuries such as burns, factures, drowning poisons, animal and insect bites, cuts with serious bleeding and choking on small objects. Research shows that the most common causes of death in the group of children aged 0-19 years are traffic injuries, drowning, fire-related burns and fall (Smithson, J., Garside, R., & Pearson, M., 2011). Sometimes not treating the injury in a right way, may end up of becoming a serious injury and the children’s life has a large possibility of …show more content…
et al (2016) implies that the children who did not die from accident injury might experience disability. Unintentional injury affects their physical, emotional and mental development negatively because the injury reduces their ability to do some challenging activities (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Accidental injuries limit children’s self-worth, creativity and cognitive competencies which will affect them as they grow up (Brussoni, M., 2012). For instance, not all injuries are unintentional, intentional injury could also happen through physical abuse (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Intentional injuries can be classified if the children are suffering from suspicious injuries such as burns, bone fractures and extensive or intensive bruising (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Hoffnung, M., et al (2016) states that “Injuries that are inflicted rather than unintentional are often difficult to identify (p.
Unintentional injuries of children during their outdoor free play may end up into two different result such as major and minor. The major result usually happens in a worst scenario which is death. Hoffnung, M., Hoffnung, R. J., Seifert, K. L., Hine, A., Ward, L., Pausé, C., and Smith, R. B. (2016) explains that accidents are the main cause of children’s death which is linked to injuries such as burns, factures, drowning poisons, animal and insect bites, cuts with serious bleeding and choking on small objects. Research shows that the most common causes of death in the group of children aged 0-19 years are traffic injuries, drowning, fire-related burns and fall (Smithson, J., Garside, R., & Pearson, M., 2011). Sometimes not treating the injury in a right way, may end up of becoming a serious injury and the children’s life has a large possibility of …show more content…
et al (2016) implies that the children who did not die from accident injury might experience disability. Unintentional injury affects their physical, emotional and mental development negatively because the injury reduces their ability to do some challenging activities (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Accidental injuries limit children’s self-worth, creativity and cognitive competencies which will affect them as they grow up (Brussoni, M., 2012). For instance, not all injuries are unintentional, intentional injury could also happen through physical abuse (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Intentional injuries can be classified if the children are suffering from suspicious injuries such as burns, bone fractures and extensive or intensive bruising (Hoffnung, M. et al, 2016). Hoffnung, M., et al (2016) states that “Injuries that are inflicted rather than unintentional are often difficult to identify (p.