A case–control study of boat-related injuries and fatalities in Washington State

Stempski, Sarah; Schiff, Melissa A.; Bennett, Elizabeth; Quan, Linda

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2013-041022

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“…It is possible that people who choose to drink while boating, even if they do not drink to intoxication, may also be those who choose not to wear life jackets. Given, however, that drinking increases the risk of capsizing, a collision or falling overboard, 28 increased life jacket use among drinking boaters and all passengers onboard with a drinking or sober pilot is likely to reduce fatalities. 29 In the absence of life jacket laws for all adult boaters, linking enforcement of “boating while intoxicated” laws to encouragement of life jacket use and inspections regarding presence of life jackets onboard may improve life jacket use.…”

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Barriers to life jacket use among adult recreational boaters

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Objective To identify barriers to life jacket use. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting Nine public boat ramps in western Washington State, USA, August-November, 2008. Participants 675 adult boaters (>18 years) on motor boats <26 feet long. Main outcome Low or no life jacket use (0–50% of time) versus high life jacket use (51–100% of time). Results Low/no life jacket use (0%–50% of time) was associated with longer boat length (per foot, risk ratio [RR] 1.03, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.02–1.05), alcohol use (RR 1.11, 95% CI 1.01–1.20), perception of life jackets as “uncomfortable” (RR 1.29, 95%CI 1.09–1.52), perceived greater level of swimming ability (RR 1.25, 95% CI 1.03–1.53 for “expert swimmer”), and possibly with lack of confidence that a life jacket may save one from drowning (RR 1.13, 95%CI 0.96–1.32). Low life jacket use was less likely when a child was onboard (RR 0.88, 95% CI 0.79–0.99), or if the respondent had taken a boating safety class (RR 0.94, 95% CI 0.87–1.01). Conclusions Life jacket use may increase with more comfortable devices, such as inflatable life jackets, and with increased awareness of their efficacy in preventing drowning. Boater education classes may be associated with increased life jacket use among adults.

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“…Life jackets, or personal flotation devices, may prevent one in two boating-related drowning deaths,4 yet in the USA in 2010, 88% of boating-related drowning victims did not wear a life jacket 5. In Washington State, boating without a life jacket was associated with a 60% increased risk of death between 2003 and 2009 6. Three out of every four people under 20 years of age who drowned in a boating incident in Washington State between 2000 and 2009 were not wearing a life jacket 7…”

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Informing policy on open water drowning prevention: an observational survey of life jacket use in Washington state

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“…Wearing a life jacket was recently associated with a 50% decreased risk of drowning death among boaters who wore them compared with those who did not in a large, national study of U.S. boating-related drownings (Cummings, Mueller, & Quan, 2011). More recently, wearing a life jacket also was associated with a 48% reduced likelihood of death among boaters involved in a boating incident (Stempski, Schiff, & Quan, 2014). National organizations in the U.S. and other countries have promoted life jacket use among boaters, but compliance has not increased (Mangione, Chow, & Nguyen, 2012).…”

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Primary and Secondary Drowning Interventions: The American Red Cross Circle of Drowning Prevention and Chain of Drowning Survival

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Creating awareness about primary and secondary interventions that can be used in situations involving drowning is an important prevention strategy. Consistent among reports from almost all countries is that drowning injury steals life from young children, followed by youth, and then young adults. As a result of the ongoing need to reduce these types of statistics, the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council-Aquatic Subcouncil established two intervention programs to address both sides of drowning events. Content of this manuscript is based on work by members of the Aquatic Subcouncil. It focuses on describing and providing scientific rationale for two educational programs designed to approach the issue of drowning from both a primary and secondary intervention perspective. Presented are the Circle of Drowning Prevention and the Chain of Drowning Survival along with the thought processes and foundational research that brought them into existence. Both intervention programs are currently being used in educational materials and marketing efforts within American Red Cross water safety materials.

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A case–control study of boat-related injuries and fatalities in Washington State

Abstract: Increasing PFD use, safety features on the boat and alcohol non-use are key strategies and non-motorised boaters are key target populations to prevent boating deaths.

Cited by 21 publications

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Barriers to life jacket use among adult recreational boaters

Barriers to life jacket use among adult recreational boaters

Informing policy on open water drowning prevention: an observational survey of life jacket use in Washington state

Primary and Secondary Drowning Interventions: The American Red Cross Circle of Drowning Prevention and Chain of Drowning Survival

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