Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16203840›Full record

ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2005

"Banned from the streets I have paid to use": an analysis of Australian print media coverage of proposals for passenger and night driving restrictions for young drivers.

S Blows, R Q Ivers, S Chapman

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Newspaper coverage of residential fires: an opportunity for prevention communication.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2007
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

S BlowsInjury Prevention and Trauma Care Division, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia. sblows@thegeorgeinstitute.org
R Q Ivers
S Chapman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo catalogue arguments that can be anticipated in public debate when passenger and night driving restrictions are being advocated. DESIGN AND

settingFrame analysis of all relevant coverage of these topics in Australian print media during the three month period between June and September 2004 when intensive debate on the topic occurred.

main outcome measuresDebating frames used in reports and commentary on passenger and night driving restrictions.

resultsThere were 52 relevant articles published containing seven distinct frames supporting the restrictions and six opposing them. Overall, more instances of frames supporting the restrictions were published; these mostly focused on the potential for saving lives. Opposition to the restrictions focused largely on their inappropriateness as a road safety measure as well as on the importance of young people's autonomy and freedom.

conclusionsAdvocates of passenger and night driving restrictions have a number of arguments available to advance their case; however, it is important to anticipate and address possible counter arguments. Future research should address the saliency of different arguments to the public and key decision makers in government.

Indexed as

Public OpinionAccidents, TrafficAdolescentAustraliaAutomobile DrivingHealth PolicyHumansNewspapers as TopicSafetyTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID16203840
PMCPMC1730267

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.