Grant: Operating Grant: Analyses of Existing Cohorts & Databases - IHDCYH

Major injuries that require hospitalization are commonin the general population and especially common in children. With improved medical treatment of injuries over the last several years, there has been increasing awareness of the psychosocial impact of such injuries on the individual. We propose to address the gap in the knowledge of long-term outcomes following injury through linking the pediatric clinical trauma registry with the data repositories at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). The cases will be compared 1:5 to control cohorts matched on age, sex and geographic residence. Administrative data will be used to determine the prevalence of mental illness as compared to a control cohort. The proposed study will have unique strengths and will advance knowledge of mental illness among the largest longitudinal pediatric trauma populations studied to date.