Evaluating the impact of skill development for drowning prevention: a relationship-building approach to community engagement

Conclusions Creating a dialogic model of collaboration via participatory community engagements between lifeguards and researchers with the beachgoing public can successfully prompt learning drowning prevention skills. These skills are required when navigating dynamic coastal hazards at unpatrolled beaches. Supporting lifeguards and life-savers to provide skill development expands the ways that life-saving services can engage the public, including measurement of lifeguards’ contributions to coastal drowning prevention.
Source: Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Original research Source Type: research