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Identifying risk factors and implications for beach drowning prevention amongst an Australian multicultural community.
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- Predicting Drowning Mortality Risk Using Machine Learning Models; A Retrospective Cohort Study.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Measuring Australian Primary School Children's Water Safety Knowledge: Alignment With the Victorian Water Safety Certificate.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- Qualitative exploration of barriers and enablers to migrant access to water safety programmes in Australia.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Adult migrants urgent need for drowning prevention in Australia: water safety perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Far From Help: Exploring the Influence of Regional and Remote Residence on Coastal Visitation and Participation, Risk Perception and Safety Knowledge and Practices.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025Article
- The influence of water safety knowledge on adolescents' drowning risk behaviors: a framework of risk-protect integrated and KAP theory.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Rip current knowledge: do people really know its danger? do lifeguards know more than the general public?Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
Multicultural communities in Australia are recognised as a priority area for drowning prevention, but no evidence-based study has addressed their knowledge of beach safety. This study used an online survey tool to identify and examine risk factors relating to swimming ability, beach visitation characteristics and behaviour, and beach safety knowledge of the Australian Southern Asian community to assist in the development of future beach safety interventions. Data was obtained through 249 online and in-person surveys of people aged > 18 years. Most respondents reported poor swimming ability (80%), often swam in in the absence of lifeguards (77%), did not understand the rip current hazard (58%), but reported that they entered the water (76%) when visiting beaches. Close to one-quarter (28%) had not heard, or didn't know the purpose, of the red and yellow beach flags, which identify lifeguard supervised areas on Australian beaches. Length of time living in Australia is an important beach safety consideration for this community, with minimal differences in terms of gender and age. Those who have lived < 10 years in Australia visit beaches more frequently and are less likely to have participated in swimming lessons, be able to swim, heard of the flags or swim between them, understand rip currents, or have participated in a beach safety program. Very few (3%) respondents received beach safety information from within their own community. The importance of beach safety education and swimming lessons within the Southern Asian community should be prioritised for new and recent migrants to Australia.
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