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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 1:
The Difference Between
Intentional and Unintentional
Injuries
MAPEH – Grade 9
Quarter 4 – Module 1: The Difference Between Intentional and Unintentional Injuries
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 1:
The Difference Between
Intentional and Unintentional
Injuries
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress
while allowing them to manage their own learning at home.
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If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this
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bear in mind that you are not alone. We hope that through this material,
you will experience meaningful learning and gain deep understanding
of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 Let Us Learn
Before we start, I would like to know how familiar are you with different
injuries. Specifically, it seeks to achieve the learning competency
differentiates intentional injuries from unintentional injuries (H(IS –
IVa-d-31)

And we will focus our learning objectives with the following:

1. describes injuries;
2. differentiate intentional and unintentional injuries

Are you ready? Let’s do this. Now, let us start learning about this
module. See you and good luck!

Let Us Try
Know Me

Categorize the following situation into intentional (planned) injury and

unintentional (not planned) injury. Write your answer inside the box that
corresponds to your answer.

• A guy pushed down a girl under • Overdosing of prescribed

the water medicine
• Broken arm from falling off the • A student being kidnapped
stairs A guy posting a malicious picture of
• A man committing suicide another guy on social media
• Injured when thrown from a • A customer choked while eating
running car inside the restaurant

Intentional Injuries Unintentional Injuries

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Guide Questions:

1. What is your basis in categorizing the given situations into

intentional and unintentional injuries?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

2. Is it easy to categorize whether the situation is intentional or

unintentional injury?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

Let Us Study
INJURIES: INTENTIONAL AND UNINTENTIONAL

People want to be happy always. Children want to play inside and

outside of their house with friends. You, as a teenager, wants to hang out with
your classmates in school. Young people want adventure and travel in
different places. Adults wants to be with their love ones and be safe at home.
This is one way of how we view a perfect life. No struggle, no pain, only being
comfortable in any situation.
But life does not give us all we want. We encounter problems, being in
pain, and uncomfortable. We always wish to be safe, but circumstances
sometimes oppose to what we wish for. We can always trust ourselves but not
every situation. Pain will be inflicted to anybody anytime whether it is
intentional and unintentional. Some people will think of hurting someone out
of revenge, frustration, mean to abuse and even in a manner of psychological
problem. And there is also instances that unpredictable event will happen in
which the pain is not meant by anybody to be inflected.
Rich or poor, young or old, we cannot avoid being scared, encounter
accident, and being abused in any manner. But as young as you are, you have
the capability of protecting yourself by being careful and avoiding things that
will put yourself in danger.

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 Injury - also known as physical trauma which refers to damage to the
body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents,
falls, hits, weapons, and other causes.

Intentional injuries
- injuries that occur with purposeful intent and include
homicide, suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault and rape,
bias related violence and firearms.
when someone planned for harmful actions upon oneself or
others. (study.com, 2014)

Categories of Intentional Injuries:

Self - Inflected- when a person harms himself/herself on

purpose
Assault – when a person/s harm other on purpose

Unintentional injuries - injuries that occur without purposeful intent,

and are a leading cause of death and disability.
- harmful acts that occurred without any intention of
causing damage to oneself or others (study.com, 2014)
- formerly called “accidents”, and leading case of death and
disability for children, teen, and young adults.

Follow up question:

How do we know if the injury is intentional or unintentional?

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 Let Us Practice
COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Use the Venn diagram below and write the differences and similarities of
intentional and unintentional injuries.

Let Us Practice More

Direction: List down 2 situations that fall to intentional injuries and another
2 situations that will fall to unintentional injuries, then explain why you
consider these injuries intentional and unintentional.

A. Intentional Injuries:

1. ________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________

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Explanation:
___________________________________________________________________________

B. Unintentional Injuries:

1. ________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________

Explanation:
___________________________________________________________________________

Let Us Remember

• Injury - also known as physical trauma which refers to damage to

the body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents,
falls, hits, weapons, and other causes.
• Intentional injuries - injuries that occur with purposeful intent
and include homicide, suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault
and rape, bias related violence and firearms.
• Unintentional injuries - injuries that occur without purposeful
intent, and are a leading cause of death and disability. It is harmful
acts that occurred without any intention of causing damage to
oneself or others.

Let Us Assess
Direction: Encircle the letter of your answer

1. What is the other term for injury?

A. physical trauma B. physical pain
C. mental trauma D. mental pain

2. Which of the following injury is not intentional?

A. rape B. suicide C. bullying D. choking

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3. Which of the following best describe intentional injury?
A. The injury is unplanned to causing damage to oneself and others.
B. The injury is planned to causing damage to oneself and others.
C. The injury is intended to happen.
D. The injury is intentionally being medicate

4. How is intentional injuries differs from unintentional injuries?

A. Intentional injuries are injuries that occur without purposeful
intent while unintentional injuries are injuries that occur with
purposeful intent.
B. Intentional injuries are injuries that occur with purposeful intent
while unintentional injuries are injuries that occur without
purposeful intent.
C. Intentional injuries are injuries intended to happen while
unintentional injuries are injuries not intended to happen.
D. Intentional injuries are not intended to happen while unintentional
injuries are injuries intended to happen.

5. Which of the following is unintentional injury?

A. self-inflected injury B. assault
C. accident C. violence

6. Which of the following situations is intentional injury?

A. Mika was chocked while talking to her classmate during lunch.
B. Allen accidentally burnt herself while cooking her favorite food.
C. Her father had a heart attack yesterday while biking.
D. Tobias was pushed down the stairs by his classmate.

7. Which of the following statement is correct?

A. Injuries can be prevented always
B. Intentional injuries are planned, and unintentional injuries are not
planned.
C. If we feel safe, we don’t need to be cautious all the time.
D. Everybody will know if accident will happen.

8. What do you call when person/s harm other on purpose?

A. assault injury B. self – inflected injury
C. accident D. unintentional injury

9. What is the leading cause of death and disability for children, teen, and
young adults?
A. intentional injuries B. unintentional injuries
C. self- inflected injuries D. assault injuries

10. What do you call when a person harms himself/herself on purpose?

A. assault injury B. self – inflected injury
C. accident D. unintentional injury

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 Let Us Enhance

Choose one from the following injuries given below and create and write
two scenarios that this injury becomes intention and unintentional.

Injuries
o Falling down the stairs
o Drowning
o Choking
o Burns
o Two Cars crash

A. Intentional Scenario

B. Unintentional Scenario

Let Us Reflect

Today you have learned to differentiate unintentional and intentional

injuries. The next time you hear and watch movies and know how the injuries
happen, you already have the background knowledge about it. Hopefully
when you will hear it next time you will understand it.

Congratulations! You have accomplished this module and you did a

great job! I hope you enjoy answering this module and continue this
enthusiasm with the following modules. See you! God Bless

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Answer Key

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 References

CHAsections. Injuries (unintentional&intentional) Retrieved from

https://www.ocgov.net/sites/default/files/health/CommunityHealth
Assessment/CHASections/Injuries%20%28Unintentional%20%20Inte
ntional%29.pdf on July 3, 2020

Study.com (2014). Unintentional injuries vs. intentional injuries, Retrieved

from https://study.com/academy/lesson/unintentional-injuries-vs-
intentional-injuries-definitions-differences.html on July 3, 2020

Wikipedia (2014) What is injury? Retrieved from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury on July 2, 2020
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