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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"unintentional injury"”.
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Differences in Pediatric Unintentional Injury Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
Unintentional injuries contribute significantly to childhood mortality and morbidity nationally and globally. In the United States, they are the leading cause of death in children over the age of 1, causing more than 9,000 childhood deaths each year. Moreover, for every fatality, there are over …
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The Relationship between Unintentional Injury Risk and Risk Taking Behaviors: The Effects of Impulsivity/Overactivity and Inattention, Grade, and Gender in School-Age Children
… impulsivity/overactivity), grade, and gender to unintentional injury risk and risk-taking behaviors among primary school-age students. The participants included the parents, guardians, and teachers of 109 primary school-age students. The students represented 1st - 3rd grades (n= 61) and 4th - 5th …
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Barriers to Adherence to Medical Recommendations Following Pediatric Injury
… research examining adherence following pediatric unintentional injury. Empirical evidence from studies with pediatric chronic illness samples indicates that youth experience a number of barriers to adherence to medical recommendations. Adherence is especially difficult for adolescents due to the …
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Evaluating the need for first aid and basic life support training among early childhood development practitioners in Cape Town, South Africa
Background: Unintentional injury remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children worldwide. The aim of this study will be to ascertain if teachers and teacher's assistants in early childhood development facilities have training in first aid or emergency care, what their …
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Analysis of a shuffling detection device for fall prevention
… are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide. In order to address this issue from a fall prevention perspective, I began developing a footwear device to give feedback to the user on their walking. In this iteration, I've identified characteristics to …
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Improving Occupational Safety & Health Interventions: A Comparison of Safety Self-Efficacy & Safety Stages of Change
… dying and over 170 people sustaining a disabling injury every 10 minutes (National Safety Council, 1999). Every year more than 80,000 Americans are permanently disabled as a result of injury to the brain or spinal cord. Thus, unintentional injury represents a serious public health concern, and a …
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Think First for Kids (TFFK): A Longitudinal Analysis of a School-Based Injury Prevention Curriculum
… years of legislative and public health efforts, unintentional injury continues to be a serious public health problem and is identified as a major priority on the national health care agenda. The high incidence of unintentional injury in the middle childhood age group is of particular interest due …
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Peer Influences on Risk-taking in Middle Childhood
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children. Many injuries to school-aged children occur during unsupervised peer activities, but peer influences on risky behavior in preadolescence remain under-investigated. We examined peer context effects on reported …
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Biomechanical Response of Human Volunteers and Surrogates in a Variety of Loading Regimes
Unintentional injuries present a major threat to the health and welfare of humans. Over 120,000 deaths and over 30,000,000 non-fatal injuries are estimated annually in the United States. The leading causes of nonfatal injuries vary with age, but falls, motor vehicle collisions (occupants), and …
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A Behavioral and Educational Treatment to Improve Adolescent Mothers Supervision and Home Safety Practices With Their Young Children
Injury is the leading cause of death and disabilityamong American children, and most injuries to children aged 1-5 years occur at home. Factors associated with increased risk for unintentional injury to young children include an overcrowded home environment, low SES, and living with a mother who is …
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Estimation of the Scale of Injury according to Severity
… of this study is to classify the severity of injury into death, hospitalization, and outpatient department, to grasp the current conditions of injury by estimating and pyramiding intention and the scale of injury mechanisms according to intention, and to find the characteristics of the pyramid …
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The Role of Impulsive Aggression in a Cohort of Suicide Attempters
… than would be found among suicide ideators and unintentionally injured controls. The study further hypothesized that levels of impulsive aggression among all study participants would remain stable across time. Methods: Three groups of patients (n = 291) were recruited, with suicide attempters as …
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Estimating injury mortality in South Africa and identifying urban-rural differences
… of this thesis is to utilise national data on injury mortality in South Africa, to conduct advanced statistical analyses to identify urban-rural differences for injury deaths, and to gain insight into the explanatory variables for homicide in metropolitan- and non-metropolitan (metro- and …
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Prevention | Rescue | Resuscitation – The influence of New Zealand lifeguarding practice on global drowning prevention
… serious public health issue and leading cause of unintentional injury mortality worldwide. Of the 320,000 deaths annually, most occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Not all drowning is fatal, but some survivors suffer long-term or permanent disability. Prompt rescue and resuscitation …
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Developing Guidelines for Designing Child Safety Printed Educational Materials: A User-Centered Approach
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 14 and under and of these children who were fatally injured more that 60 % were not using safety restraints at the time of the collision. Children who are too large for child safety seats are often …
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Evaluating an Actively Caring for KIDS Process: A Behavioral-Community Program to Reduce Child Safety-Seat Misinformation and Misuse
The "Actively Caring for KIDS Process," a multi-component program that taught retail store sales associates to act as behavior-change agents for child passenger safety, was implemented at a nationwide-chain discount store and evaluated with an interrupted time series design and a similar control …