A Reasoned Action Approach Assessment of Instructional Youth Swim Safety Messaging

Ramos, William D.; Anderson, Austin R.

doi:10.25035/ijare.10.02.07

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“…Although attitudes and behaviors are often listed as expected outcomes from studies, these are very specific phenomenon that need to be addressed with more scientific rigor. Recent work by Ramos and Anderson 16 employed a Reasoned Action Approach, grounded in the theory of planned behavior, in an attempt to create a better understanding of the underlying constructs of behavior that can result from a water safety education type intervention. This method is currently being tested in a subsequent research project with similar participant groups within Vietnam.…”

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Drowning Prevention: Assessment of a Classroom-Based Water Safety Education Program in Vietnam

Ramos

Greenshields

Knee

et al. 2018

Asia Pac J Public Health

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Youth drowning continues to be a primary public health issue globally with Eurasian countries experiencing some of the highest recorded rates of injury and death in aquatic settings. The country of Vietnam is currently working toward reducing the number of youth drowning fatalities. Part of these efforts is the introduction of an in-school water safety educational program. For this study, pilot pre/post data were acquired and used to assess overall knowledge acquisition and changes in knowledge of youth in grades 1 to 5 in central Vietnam. A total of 229 schools participated, resulting in 40 198 usable surveys. The results indicated that overall there was a significant change in scores with an acceptable effect size between measures. Mean scores for each of the water safety messages were rated as acceptable (above 90%), satisfactory (between 70% and 90%), and areas of concern (under 70%). Recommendations were made to program leaders about identified areas of concern.

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Drowning Prevention: Assessment of a Classroom-Based Water Safety Education Program in Vietnam

Ramos

Greenshields

Knee

et al. 2018

Asia Pac J Public Health

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“…This study administered a pre/post survey to swim lesson participants to examine their attitudes, intentions and beliefs about water safety behavior. Results of this study indicated that the knowledge areas of rescue, call for help, and the wearing/use of lifejackets were "areas of concern" for researchers regarding knowledge acquisition and behavioral intention (Ramos & Anderson, 2017).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Reflecting upon the results of the Ramos and Anderson study from a cultural perspective provides some intriguing outcomes for the standardized delivery of water safety messaging. For example, youth participants in the study expressed reluctance to always call the police for help during an aquatic emergency, as reflected in the low scores within the "call for help" knowledge domain (Ramos & Anderson, 2017). Examining this result from the cultural perspective of the participants allows for the integration of complex social issues such as those surrounding relationships between community police and minority populations.…”

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“…In addition to the knowledge component is the Learn to Swim (LTS) program, which is designed as a combination of skill development and water safety knowledge acquisition (Red Cross, 2014c). The LTS program has become known as the gold standard in the industry and still holds the market share within these types of programs with an emphasis around teaching people how to swim (Ramos & Anderson, 2017). Taught as a tiered system of skill development, the program uses a sequential set of six levels to take participants from parent/toddler based immersion experiences to swimming and skill proficiency.…”

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“…In 2017, the inaugural National Leadership Summit on Diversity in Aquatics was held and comprised of aquatic stakeholders from a variety of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) national organizations. Through constituent-focused strategies involving collaboration with targeted group members (Table 1), tool kits and action plans were developed to provide a substantive role for diverse community members to participate in planning of water safety education programs and appropriate risk message strategies that will help drive outreach and programming into diverse communities (Ramos & Anderson, 2017;Waller & Norwood, 2014). This created the understanding that visual graphics and language translation alone do not increase CLD communities' understanding of water safety information factors (e.g.…”

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A Cause to Action: Learning to Develop a Culturally Responsive/Relevant Approach to 21st Century Water Safety Messaging through Collaborative Partnerships

Beale‐Tawfeeq¹,

Anderson²,

Ramos³

2018

IJARE

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Globally, and in the United States, drowning is considered a "neglected public health threat" (WHO, 2014b). Reports have shown that there are groups of people in certain communities who are at greater risk. African Americans, as a group, have a drowning death rate 9% higher than that of the overall population, with the greatest disparity being among African American youth (Gilchrist & Parker, 2014). While many national programs and organizations present water safety awareness and drowning prevention efforts within communities, very few offer multi-sectorial collaborative efforts (WHO, 2017a) among culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) aquatic stakeholders designed to empower, promote, and support water safety awareness in communities. Inspired by evidence-based research, derived from a national water safety and drowning prevention campaign, the purpose of this article is to answer a call to action by the World Health Organization (2017a) to approach water safety education through a social justice lens to inform programming and collaborative partnerships.

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Public health interventions to prevent children drowning: an updated systematic review

Crawford,

D’Orazio,

Gray

et al. 2024

J Public Health (Berl.)

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Aim Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability for children and young people worldwide and a significant public health challenge. This updated review identifies and assesses public health interventions designed to prevent child drowning. It aimed to evaluate the global scope of literature and examine contributions made to the evidence since the last review was published. Subject and methods The review follows processes established in previous reviews and recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Articles were peer-reviewed, published in English between 2011 and 2023 and described and evaluated child drowning primary prevention interventions. Fifteen databases were searched, and articles were managed in Endnote and Rayyan.AI. The MetaQAT framework was applied to quality appraisal. Results We included a final sample of n = 43 studies. Most studies were from high-income countries and applied quantitative intervention designs. Just under half targeted children, most at the population level. Approximately one in three studies used behavioural theory to guide intervention development. Few studies reported formative research. Conclusion The past decade has seen a threefold increase in the number of papers describing public health interventions to prevent children drowning. Despite this increase, interventions remain primarily educational, focusing on behavioural strategies. A call for more comprehensive and systems-level interventions that tackle the upstream determinants of child drowning is timely.

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A Reasoned Action Approach Assessment of Instructional Youth Swim Safety Messaging

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References 12 publications

Drowning Prevention: Assessment of a Classroom-Based Water Safety Education Program in Vietnam

Drowning Prevention: Assessment of a Classroom-Based Water Safety Education Program in Vietnam

A Cause to Action: Learning to Develop a Culturally Responsive/Relevant Approach to 21st Century Water Safety Messaging through Collaborative Partnerships

Public health interventions to prevent children drowning: an updated systematic review

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