The impact of horse-related injuries presenting to the Emergency Department and patient-reported outcomes measures: A two-phase cohort study
Grant ID: EMLE-292R42-2024-ROBERTS
Project Summary
Children and adults who experience injury from horses-related accidents can be at risk of severe trauma due to injury mechanism, i.e., falling from, being kicked, hit, trampled, or crushed by a horse. Despite a low incident rate of injury in horse-riding and equestrian sports when an accident occurs there is a high-risk of the injury being severe due to the mechanism. Injury risk from horses has been found among experienced horse riders and handlers to increase with frequency of interaction and over time.
There is a lack of current evidence on the impact from all mechanisms of horse-related injuries experienced by children and adults treated in the emergency department. And the examination of health-related recovery of children and adults after discharge from the emergency department and hospital has been rarely researched. The aim of this study is to examine horse-related injury and recovery from injury among children and adults.
This project will be conducted in two phases, a review of health care data from emergency department presentations including all types of horse-related injury from 2018 to 2024. The second phase of the study will be conducted prospectively from July 2025 to June 2026 to examine how children (eight-years-and-above) and adults have recovered from injury. Patients (or parent/guardian) will consent for health care data to be collected and for follow-up by research staff after discharge from the emergency department or hospital at three-and six-months, this will include completion of a health-related quality of life questionnaire.
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