A brief tailored family-centered seat belt intervention for hospitalized trauma patients.

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• Creators:
  Ehrlich, Peter F. ; Cunningham, Rebecca ; Walton, Maureen
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Michigan. Department of Surgery. Section of Pediatric Surgery
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Office of Behavioral Safety Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automatic seat belts
  • Passive restraint systems
  • Manual safety belts
  • Child restraint systems
  • Child safety seats
  • Behavior modification
  • Children
  • Traffic crash victims
  • Patients
  • Seat belts , brief intervention, behavioral change
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UMTRI-2010-10
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Michigan. Transportation Research Institute
• Abstract:
  "Among children 5-19 years, the commonest cause of unintentional injury-related death is ; being an occupant/driver in a motor vehicle crash (MVC). In 2006 in the United States, there ; were 568,188 injuries among children (0-18) due to MVC. Of these, 38,039 were severe ; enough to require hospitalization and there were 6,781 deaths. Seat belts and appropriate child ; restraints reduce the morbidity and mortality from MVC. Yet studies have shown that less than ; 50% of children hospitalized from a MVC were restrained at the time of the crash. ; In 2007, a statewide direct observation survey reported 93.7% of Michigan motorists wore ; their seat belts in the front seat. In 2007, at the University of Michigan CS Mott Hospital, 120 ; children were hospitalized due to MVC and only 64% were restrained. The unrestrained ; children suffered the most severe injuries and had the greater morbidity. A prime factor that ; influences whether a child uses a safety device is whether a parent uses a seat belt. In focus ; groups, teens said they used seat belts because of how they were raised. In a prior study, we ; compared safety attitudes and practices with 800 grade 4-6 children paired with their parents. ; Matched analysis demonstrated that parents who always wear a seat belt are more likely to have ; children who sit in the back seat and wear a seat belt (73% vs. 27%, p<0.05). This suggests that ; the parent/child non-seat belt/restraint users are an ideal target for an intervention. Our ; hypothesis for this study was that both parents and children are equally important in modifying ; pediatric safety practices. The specific aim of this study was to develop and test in a randomized ; controlled study a brief family- centered “seat belt intervention."
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTNH22-06-H-00055
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23557/dot_23557_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.41 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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