“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

Leavy, Justine; Jancey, Jonine; Hall, Carmen; Nimmo, Lauren; Crawford, Gemma

doi:10.1002/hpja.267

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“…This result is caused mainly because of swimming activities held during summer time with the lack of swimming ability among certain age groups. Several studies conducted in Ireland, France, Australia and china by Davey et al ( 8 ), Bessereau et al ( 18 ), Leavy et al ( 19 ) and Liu et al ( 20 ) respectively, together with a study held by Loux et al ( 21 ) revealed that summer was the season with the highest percentage in regards to risk factors associated with fatal drownings compared to other months of the year which came out with agreement with the results of this study.…”

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Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)

Shotar¹,

Halalsheh²,

Shatnawi³

et al. 2022

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Background: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is globally considered as one of the leading causes of injury related deaths. Defined as the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion in a liquid medium. Drowning is a public health concern in Jordan. This study aimed to investigate drowning incident data from the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre in the North of Jordan for the purpose of defining high risk groups and circumstances around drowning fatalities which suffered an attention deficit. Objective: The study aims to describe the rate of fatal drowning in North of Jordan and to properly understand the risk factors associated with it. Methods: The present study is retrospective, based on investigating 2808 autopsy reports and selecting only 85 drowning related death reports conducted through a 5 year period (2015-2019) in the Forensic Medicine Teaching Centre which serves Northern Jordan including Irbid, Jarash, Ajloun, and Al-Mafraq. The statistical analysis of fatal drowning cases included the following risk variables: Age, gender, month, year, nationality, address, alcohol and drug consumption. Results: 15 variables were consistent and analyzed across the database of this study. The high risk groups and patterns were identified and the majority of fatal drowning cases were related to males (80.4%). Age group from (2 to 27 years of age were included in the high-risk groups with (88.2%) of all cases. Specifically, the age 2 had the highest occurring frequency. While (17.6%) of drowning fatalities occurred in August. Alcohol and drugs had no significant impact on increasing drowning rates. The dominant manner of death among all cases was accidental (95.3%). Fatal drowning rates were decreasing throughout the years of (2015-2019). Conclusion: Defining drowning high risk groups and its epidemiology helps to overcome this preventable cause of death. The current study highlights the necessity for the need of further interventions to be actively fixed into policies and educational programs and emphasize safety precautions during water activities and to improve the dataset collection for better planning of prevention strategies.

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Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)

Shotar¹,

Halalsheh²,

Shatnawi³

et al. 2022

Med Arch

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“…372000 people die from drowning every year, which makes drowning a serious public health threat and one of the ten leading causes of death in children under 5 years of age and young males between 15 and 19 years (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014). Learning to swim and education on water safety are two of the most important strategies for preventing drowning (Leavy et al, 2019), some authors especially emphasize the protective value of swimming ability against drowning (Brenner et al, 2009). Data from the United States show that 74% of drowning victims didn't know how to swim (Cody et al, 2004), similarly over one third of drowning victims between 5 and 14 years of age in Canada had no or poor swimming abilities (Canadian Red Cross, 2003).…”

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Development and Validity of the Fear of Water Assessment Questionnaire

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Fear of water is the strongest predictor for no or low swimming competencies. Some individuals will never learn to swim due to their complete avoidance of water, whereas others might have difficulty with learning due to the fact that they cannot sufficiently relax their body to facilitate floating or swimming. Therefore, it is important to identify these people and to establish effective teaching strategies that can best help this specific population. Recognizing this, there is a clear need for an assessment tool which can help swim teachers and coaches identify people with a fear of water. The study aimed to first develop and then validate a fear of water assessment questionnaire (FWAQ). 2074 male and female people participated in the creation of a 40-item questionnaire. The exploratory factor showed that a 3 factor solution including 20 items was most sensiblesuch a solution accounted for 31.69% of explained variance and the Cronbach's alpha α was 0.831, which makes for a reliable enough solution. A subsequent discriminant function analysis correctly classified 98.2% of participants. We concluded that the findings from this study support that the FWAQ is a valid scale that effectively identify people with fear of water.

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“…One of the key impacts of the NFDD has been the anecdotal increase in reporting of drowning incidents by the Australian media, due in part to the NFDD providing the ability to quickly and easily respond to media requests for information, coupled with timely media-facing advocacy activities such as the Summer Drowning Toll. Systematic collation of media coverage of drowning incidents afforded by media monitoring, as used in data triangulation for the NFDD, can also provide an opportunity to audit the manner in which drowning incidents are being reported, including the provision of water safety and drowning prevention information to readers, which has yet to be done on a national basis [ 29 ].…”

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Lessons learned through the 20-year development of a national fatal drowning database in Australia

Peden

Willcox-Pidgeon

Scarr³

et al. 2023

BMC Public Health

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Background Co-ordinated, evidence-based policy and programmatic efforts are needed to respond to complex drowning prevention problems. Comprehensive, current, and robust data are vital for agenda setting, burden and risk factor identification, intervention design and evaluation, as well as setting policy. We aim to record methods used in, and identify impacts of, the development of a national fatal drowning database (NFDD) in Australia, including lessons learned across research, policy, and practice. Methods We employ a case study method using process mapping and document review to explore the evolution, drivers and impacts of the NFDD. We analyse methodological approaches including those relating to data definitions, drowning case collection, and management, as well as tracking the various outputs of the NFDD. We describe a development timeline that presents impact of drowning prevention policy, and research agendas on database development, and research investments more specifically. Results Our study identified that the collected variables grew 20-fold from 2002 to 2022, reaching 259 variables, and 5,692 unique cases of fatal drowning. The NFDD employs data triangulation methodology, combining keyword and targeted searches of coronial files, media report monitoring, and organisational data provision. Database development is influenced by the Australia Water Safety Strategy, policymaker and practitioner-initiated research agendas, and identification of knowledge gaps. We identified numerous outputs spanning publications, media, intervention development, and legislative submissions. Conclusion A comprehensive and robust NFDD informed by policymaker and practitioner input can enhance surveillance, policy, and intervention development for drowning prevention. Employing mixed data collection and validation methods can supplement weaknesses in official data sources. There is a need for the NFDD to continue to evolve in its application while maintaining rigorous case identification and data quality assurance processes. Despite significant investment, the outputs and influence on drowning prevention practice in Australia has been extremely valuable and contributed to sizeable reductions in Australia’s fatal drowning rate.

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“A content analysis of news media coverage of drowning events in Western Australia over two summers, 2014‐2016”

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)

Epidemiological Analysis of Drowning Deaths Among Different Groups in Jordan - a Retrospective Study (2015-2019)

Development and Validity of the Fear of Water Assessment Questionnaire

Lessons learned through the 20-year development of a national fatal drowning database in Australia

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