OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to provide recent national prevalence estimates of pediatric injury-prevention counseling by health care providers, to compare these latest findings with those from a similar survey conducted in 1994, and to ascertain the association between counseling and safety behaviors. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, list-assisted random-digit-dial telephon...

Injury is the leading cause of death and disability among the U.S. population aged 1 to 44 years. In 2006 more than 179,000 fatalities were attributed to injury. Despite increasing awareness of the global epidemic of injury and violence, a considerable gap remains between advances in injury-prevention research and prevention knowledge that is taught to medical students. This article discusses t...

A paucity of literature regarding strategies for injury prevention in children for mothers with substance abuse exists. Substance abuse propagates distractions such as inattention; therefore, these mothers should be targeted for injury prevention education. A quasi-experimental design compared the results of traditional classroom teaching with an innovative home hazard simulation activity to te...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of FIFA injury prevention programmes in football (FIFA 11 and FIFA 11+). DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTING STUDIES Randomised controlled trials comparing the FIFA injury prevention programmes with a control (no or sham intervention) among football players. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE via PubMed, EMBASE via OVID, CIN...

context hamstring acute muscle injuries are prevalent in several sports including afl football (australian football league), sprinting and soccer, and are often associated with prolonged time away from sport. evidence acquisition in response to this, research into prevention and management of hamstring injury has increased, but epidemiological data shows no decline in injury and re-injury rates...

BACKGROUND Injuries account for an estimated 9% of global mortality. Health professionals worldwide receive little formal injury prevention training, especially in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To identify injury prevention training topics taught in a sample of medical schools throughout the world. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional survey of 82 medical schools from 31 countries. Based on...

BACKGROUND Participants' compliance, attitudes and beliefs have the potential to influence the efficacy of an intervention greatly. OBJECTIVE To characterise team and player compliance with a comprehensive injury prevention warm-up programme for football (The 11+), and to assess attitudes towards injury prevention among coaches and their association with compliance and injury risk. STUDY DE...

OBJECTIVES Physicians cite numerous barriers to incorporating injury prevention counseling into routine care. Health behavior models suggest that beliefs about barriers are associated with physician characteristics. This study explores associations between physician characteristics and physician perceptions of barriers. METHODS Self administered structured questionnaires were sent to all five...

Background: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) is a prevalent, harmful, and transdiagnostic behavior that can comprehensively be assessed in daily life studies. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the student self-injury prevention program in mitigating the Interpersonal Cognitive Distortion (ICD) and the fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE). Materials & Methods: This res...