Educational Program for the Promotion of Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices for Children in Relation to Traffic Accidents: Experimental Study

Freitas, Carla Kalline Alves Cartaxo; Rodrigues, Manuel Alves; Parreira, Pedro; Santos, Ana Carla Ferreira Silva dos; Lima, Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida; Fontes, Viviane; Freitas, João Paulo Almeida; Santos, José Marcos de Jesus; Mota, Edilene Curvelo Hora

doi:10.1590/1984-0462/;2019;37;4;00012

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“…Increase in knowledge of safety [53] Educational program using the educational therapeutic method Increased level of knowledge and maintained the preventive attitudes and practices of traffic accidents [39] Seminars and videos Decrease in injury [96] Increase in knowledge [96] The outcomes reported may be a summary of more than one intervention type. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243464.t002…”

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Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

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Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability among children. Numerous injury prevention strategies have been successful in high-income countries, but the majority of unintentional injuries happen to children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This project aims to delineate the childhood injury prevention initiatives in LMICs. For inclusion, peer-reviewed articles needed to address unintentional injury, include children <18, assess a prevention-related intervention, contain a control group, and be published after 1988. Two pairs of reviewers evaluated articles independently to determine study eligibility. 74 articles were included. 30 studies addressed road traffic injuries, 11 drowning, 8 burns, 3 falls, 8 poisonings, and 21 an unspecified injury type. The findings show positive effects on injury outcome measures following educational interventions, the need for longer follow-up periods after the intervention, the need for effectiveness trials for behavior change, and the need for an increase in injury prevention services in LMICs. This is the first systematic review to summarize the prevention initiatives for all types of childhood unintentional injuries in LMICs. Increased attention and funding are required to go beyond educational initiatives with self-reported measures and little follow-up time to robust interventions that will reduce the global burden of unintentional injuries among children.

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Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

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“…T-tests such as one-sample, unpaired (independent), and paired (dependent), have been applied in an effort to compare one group with a theoretical value (Athwani et al, 2020;Harré and Sibley, 2007;Islam et al, 2021;Soltanzadeh et al, 2016). Some other researchers compare two unmated groups of data (Hsieh et al, 2016;Kogani et al, 2020a;Kuo et al, 2017;Maeda et al, 2009;Reazaul et al, 2016) while others compare two combined groups sequentially (Freitas et al, 2019;Hu and Zheng, 2009;Xu et al, 2017). By comparing how the means, frequencies, and standard deviation of a variable differs, the output of these types of t-tests are the size of the difference of the variation or mean between the two different datasets.…”

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Measuring and comparing the spatiotemporal evolution of accident hot spots

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[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] One reality of transportation systems is that vehicular accidents can happen practically anywhere and at any time. An increasing body of research suggests though that spatial and/or temporal dependencies (i.e., clusters or hot spots) among accidents likely exist. Along with understanding where and when such spatiotemporal dependencies may occur, another important facet to consider is the geographic extent or area associated with the hot spots. For example, an accident hot spot may involve a small, isolated portion of the transportation system or a much more expansive geographic area. Better delineation and quantification of the morphological characteristics of accident hot spots can provide valuable decision support for planning for accident hot spot mitigation and prevention. As the size and shape of accident hot spots may evolve over time, the capability to track such dynamics is vital, especially with respect to the identification of effecting processes of hot spot occurrence as well as assessments of the efficacy of efforts to mitigate factors underlying hot spot development. For example, a hot spot that is increasing in size over time may indicate areas that are started with a small cluster size then become a part of a larger cluster size during the next periods. Likewise, a cluster that is decreasing in size may signify that some areas may participate with a big cluster size then decrease to a smaller cluster size later. Besides understanding the trend of cluster size evolution during multiple time periods, another important aspect to consider is the percentage or amount of similarity/dissimilarity of cluster morphological characteristics between different urban areas. Better understanding and quantification of morphological characteristics of accident hot spots' similarity characteristics over different urban area levels can also provide valuable decision support for accident safety planning and improve accident alleviation and prevention. To this end, a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) based framework is outlined to facilitate the analysis and comparison of the morphological characteristics of hot spots over time. The analysis framework is applied to a case study of vehicular accidents reported over a two-year period for Morphological analysis and a three-year period for statistical comparison computing to demonstrate its practical utility. The application results of the morphological analysis indicate that patterns of change in hot spot morphology can be effectively quantified, and a variety of informative spatial and temporal patterns can be detected. In addition, the results of cluster statistical comparison computing revealed that the level or percentage of cluster characteristics similarity between urban areas decreases with the increment of the urban city size and road levels complexity.

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Preventing Unintentional Injuries in School-Aged Children: A Systematic Review

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Unintentional injuries constitute the leading causes of death and long-term disabilities among children aged 5 to 15 years. We aimed to systematically review published literature on interventions designed to prevent unintentional injuries among school-aged children. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, and PsycINFO and screened the reference lists of included studies and relevant reviews. We included randomized controlled trials, controlled before-and-after studies, and interrupted time series studies. The focus of included studies was on primary prevention measures. Two reviewers collected data on type of study design, setting, population, intervention, types of injuries, outcomes assessed, and statistical results. RESULTS Of 30 179 identified studies, 117 were included in this review. Most of these studies were conducted in high-income countries and addressed traffic-related injuries. Evidence from included studies reveals that multicomponent educational interventions may be effective in improving safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in school-aged children mainly when coupled with other approaches. Laws/legislation were shown to be effective in increasing cycle helmet use and reducing traffic-related injury rates. Findings reveal the relevance of infrastructure modification in reducing falls and improving pedestrian safety among children. CONCLUSIONS Additional studies are needed to evaluate the impact of unintentional injury prevention interventions on injury, hospitalizations, and mortality rates and the impact of laws and legislation and infrastructure modification on preventing unintentional injuries among school-aged children.

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Educational Program for the Promotion of Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices for Children in Relation to Traffic Accidents: Experimental Study

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Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Measuring and comparing the spatiotemporal evolution of accident hot spots

Preventing Unintentional Injuries in School-Aged Children: A Systematic Review

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