Safety behaviours among Alaskan Native and American Indian people living in Alaska

Redwood, Diana; Hagan, Kyla; Perkins, Robert; Stafford, H.; Orell, Laurie; Lanier, Anne P.

doi:10.1136/ip.2008.019851

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“…Other studies were less consistent, showing an increase in lifejacket use by age among Alaskan and American indigenous adults [ 27 ]. Quistberg et al [ 29 ] found differences in lifejacket use by age with those aged 30 to 59 years more likely to wear lifejacket than their younger and older counterparts; these differences were not statistically significant.…”

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Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review

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ObjectiveDrowning claims 7% of the global burden of injury-related deaths. Lifejackets are routinely recommended as a drowning prevention strategy; however, a review of related factors regarding lifejacket wear has not previously been investigated.MethodsThis systematic review examined literature published from inception to December 2016 in English and German languages. The personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear among adults and children were investigated, a quantitative evaluation of the results undertaken, and gaps in the literature identified.ResultsTwenty studies, with sample sizes of studies ranging between 20 and 482,331, were identified. Fifty-five percent were cross-sectional studies. All studies were scored IV or V on the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grading system indicating mostly descriptive and cross-sectional levels of evidence. Factors associated with increased wear included age (mostly children), gender (mostly female), boat type (non-motorised), boat size (small boats), role modelling (children influenced by adult lifejacket wear), and activity (water-skiing, fishing). Factors not associated or inconsistent with lifejacket wear included education, household income, ethnicity, boating ability, confidence in lifejackets, waterway type, and weather and water conditions. Factors associated with reduced lifejacket wear included adults, males, discomfort, cost and accessibility, consumption of alcohol, and swimming ability. Three studies evaluated the impact of interventions.ConclusionThis review identified factors associated with both increased and decreased lifejacket wear. Future research should address the motivational factors associated with individuals’ decisions to wear or not wear lifejackets. This, combined with further research on the evaluation of interventions designed to increase lifejacket wear, will enhance the evidence base to support future drowning prevention interventions.

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Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review

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“…Rates of helmet nonuse and of related injury appear to vary across population subgroups. For example, children living in rural areas, including young people in northern, remote, and agricultural settings where ATV and snowmobile use are common, experience significantly higher risks for off‐road vehicular‐related injury 25–29 . Young males are more likely to ride, and to be injured, than are females 30 .…”

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“…For example, children living in rural areas, including young people in northern, remote, and agricultural settings where ATV and snowmobile use are common, experience significantly higher risks for offroad vehicular-related injury. [25][26][27][28][29] Young males are more likely to ride, and to be injured, than are females. 30 In order to examine these differences further and possibly shed some light on the mechanisms underlying them, we designed this national study to examine off-road vehicle and related helmet use, not only in an aggregate sense, but disaggregated by 5 sociodemographic characteristics known to be associated with the identification of vulnerable groups: age, gender, socioeconomic status, urbanrural status, and how long the young people have lived in Canada.…”

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Off‐Road Vehicle Ridership and Associated Helmet Use in Canadian Youth: An Equity Analysis

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Thompson

Torunian

et al. 2012

The Journal of Rural Health

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“…The terms cultural competency, cultural appropriateness, and cultural sensitivity are often deployed in articles that discuss the importance of culture in injury prevention efforts. Cultural sensitivity and appropriateness in particular are often used interchangeably, or jointly, and authors typically make no reference to an exact definition of either term(cf, Irie, Pollard, & Bellamy, ; Redwood et al., ). Existing literature, nevertheless, does provide clear examples of culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive programs that illustrate the practical application of these concepts to injury prevention, an area in which public health nurses wield large influence.…”

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The Need for Cultural Safety in Injury Prevention

Giles

Hognestad

Brooks

2015

Public Health Nursing

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Public health nurses are on the front line of injury prevention initiatives. However, within injury prevention interventions and research, issues pertaining to culture are often addressed through the employment of one of the three approaches: cultural competency, cultural appropriateness, and/or cultural sensitivity. When using these approaches, it is often suggested that it is only those who are the recipients of an intervention or the focus of research that "have" culture. The injury prevention designer's/provider's/researcher's own culture, as well as the ways in which it may influence the interventions or research, is typically rendered invisible. In this paper, we provide an overview and illustrations of the use of cultural competency, cultural appropriateness, and cultural sensitivity in injury prevention initiatives, as well as each approach's shortcomings. We then introduce cultural safety, an approach that has not yet gained traction in injury prevention but has had significant uptake within nursing in general, and argue that it has the potential to overcome many other approaches' shortcomings and thus may lead to more effective and socially just injury prevention initiatives.

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Safety behaviours among Alaskan Native and American Indian people living in Alaska

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review

Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review

Off‐Road Vehicle Ridership and Associated Helmet Use in Canadian Youth: An Equity Analysis

The Need for Cultural Safety in Injury Prevention

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