SynthesisInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention1995
Can we prevent accidental injury to adolescents? A systematic review of the evidence.
Synthesis in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- In Search of Concrete Outcomes-A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions on Reducing Acute Occupational Injuries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- What are the most effective ways of improving population health through transport interventions? Evidence from systematic reviews.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2003Pooled it
- Safety education of pedestrians for injury prevention.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2002Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2001Pooled it
- Systematic review of controlled trials of interventions to promote smoke alarms.Archives of disease in childhood · 2000Pooled it
- Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Article
- The influence of an injury prevention program on young road users: a German experience.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2019Article
- Evaluating the impact of an injury prevention measure regarding different sociodemographic factors.Journal of injury & violence research · 2018Article
- Comparison of transportation related injury mechanisms and outcome of young road users and adult road users, a retrospective analysis on 24,373 patients derived from the TraumaRegister DGUScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2017Article
- [P.A.R.T.Y. An initiative for more risk awareness among young road users].Der Unfallchirurg · 2016Article
- Association between childhood community safety interventions and hospital injury records: a multilevel study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2003Article
- Evaluation of community-wide interventions: the ecologic case-referent study design.European journal of epidemiology · 2001Article
- Socioeconomic differences in childhood injury: a population based epidemiologic study in Ontario, Canada.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2000Article
- An observational study of protective equipment use among in-line skaters.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1998Article
- Trends in injury mortality among adolescents in Taiwan, 1965-94.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1998Article
- Safe Child Penarth: experience with a Safe Community strategy for preventing injuries to children.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1998Article
- All terrain vehicle ownership, use, and self reported safety behaviours in rural children.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1998Article
- Factors affecting the severity of motor vehicle traffic crashes involving young drivers in Ontario.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1997Article
- Where have all the programmes gone?Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 1995Article
- Child and adolescent health in Northern Ontario: a quantitative profile for public health planning.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
objectivesAs part of the Department of Health strategy The Health of the Nation, a systematic review of published and unpublished literature relating to the effectiveness of interventions in reducing accidental injury in the population aged 15-24 years was carried out.
methodsThe literature was reviewed under the standard setting headings of road, work, home, and sports and leisure, and graded for quality of evidence and strength of recommendation using a scale published in the UK national epidemiologically based needs assessment programme.
resultsThe most effective measures appear to be legislative and regulatory controls in road, sport, and workplace settings. Environmental engineering measures on the road and in sports have relatively low implementation costs and result in fewer injuries at all ages. There is little evidence that purely educational measures reduced injuries in the short term. Community based approaches may be effective in all age groups, and incentives to encourage safer behaviour hold promise but require further evaluation. The potential of multifactorial approaches seems greater than narrowly based linear approaches.
conclusionsFew interventions to reduce injury in adolescents have been rigorously evaluated using good quality randomised controlled trials, and where such evidence is available, fewer have been shown to be definitely worthwhile. Many studies relied on surrogate measures rather than actual injury rates, and substantial issues relating to the efficacy or implementation of preventive measures in adolescent and young adult populations remain unresolved.
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