Special issues in injury prevention research: Developing the science of program implementation

McClure, Roderick John; Davis, Elizabeth; Yorkston, Emily; Nilsen, Per; Schluter, Philip J.; Bugeja, Lyndal

doi:10.1016/j.injury.2010.05.001

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“…Smaller populations, longer timeframes and information on intensity of delivery could allow for greater understanding of effectiveness. Settings-based analyses or interventions that are appropriate to readiness (or stage) of change11 56 may help to better define the audiences and appropriate education strategies for intervention.…”

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“…However, when the child becomes progressively mobile after the first year of life, swimming pools and man-made ponds (dams) or reservoirs are more frequently involved 10. Pivotal to any prevention effort is an understanding of where, how and why drowning occurs within that sequence of events, and what associated factors may affect the outcome 11. Consequently, any prevention effort must take into account risk factors such as age, aquatic location, behaviour, proximity of water, social and physical environmental factors.…”

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Interventions associated with drowning prevention in children and adolescents: systematic literature review

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Relatively few studies employ rigorous methods and high levels of evidence to assess the impact of interventions designed to reduce drowning. Studies are also limited by lack of consistency in measured outcomes and drowning terminology. Further work is required to establish efficacy of interventions for older children and adolescents. There is a need for rigorous, well-designed studies that use consistent terminology to demonstrate effective prevention solutions.

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Interventions associated with drowning prevention in children and adolescents: systematic literature review

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“…Yet it is recognised in the injury prevention literature that limited communication between researchers, practitioners and lay people, as well as insufficient sensitivity to contextual factors and actual knowledge needs when using a public health approach to injury prevention, contributes to difficulties in translating research findings into practice. This is known as a research-to-practice gap 10 24 25. The mental models approach to risk communication addresses barriers to getting needed expertise to lay decision makers.…”

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“…They considered the use of perchloroethylene in dry cleaning and rosin-based solder flux in the electrical/electronics sector in order to examine organisational and social context effects on communication and understanding of safety information. Injury prevention researchers increasingly note a need to understand how context impacts on injury 10 25. After developing a preliminary expert model from relevant literature, experts modelled their own beliefs in influence diagrams and then commented on the preliminary model.…”

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Injury prevention and risk communication: a mental models approach

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Fischhoff

2011

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Individuals' decisions and behaviour can play a critical role in determining both the probability and severity of injury. Behavioural decision research studies peoples' decision-making processes in terms comparable to scientific models of optimal choices, providing a basis for focusing interventions on the most critical opportunities to reduce risks. That research often seeks to identify the ‘mental models’ that underlie individuals' interpretations of their circumstances and the outcomes of possible actions. In the context of injury prevention, a mental models approach would ask why people fail to see risks, do not make use of available protective interventions or misjudge the effectiveness of protective measures. If these misunderstandings can be reduced through context-appropriate risk communications, then their improved mental models may help people to engage more effectively in behaviours that they judge to be in their own best interest. If that proves impossible, then people may need specific instructions, not trusting to intuition or even paternalistic protection against situations that they cannot sufficiently control. The method entails working with domain specialists to elicit and create an expert model of the risk situation, interviewing lay people to elicit their comparable mental models, and developing and evaluating communication interventions designed to close the gaps between lay people and experts. This paper reviews the theory and method behind this research stream and uses examples to discuss how the approach can be used to develop scientifically validated context-sensitive injury risk communications.

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“…The improved communication would be based on a more overt acknowledgement of the systems and processes involved in translating efficacious interventions into widespread use,6 14–16 and a recognition of the importance of selecting the most appropriate countermeasures for the implementation context 17. Improved communication would encourage the development of the leadership, infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the uptake of evidence-based interventions 3 5 18–20…”

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confidence: 99%