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Potential Predictors of Hospital Length of Stay and Hospital Charges Among Patients with All-Terrain Vehicle Injuries in Rural Northeast Texas
Conclusions: The study also found that vital signs can be useful in predicting length of stay and hospital charges. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - December 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The relationship between sleep quality and road traffic crashes of urban drivers in Hamadan, Iran
Conclusions: There was a significant association between poor sleep quality and the occurrence of RTCS in urban drivers. As a result, it is recommended paying more attention to the sleep quality of urban drivers to prevent and control RTCs. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The effect of university students ’ violence tendency on their attitude towards domestic violence and the factors affecting domestic violence attitudes
Conclusions:Violence phenomenon directed to youth was conducted on senior university students being a more developed group socially. However, young people ’s exposure to violence was found high (42.8%). Nevertheless, their scores on violence tendencies and domestic violence attitude were ascertained low. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - December 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Pedestrian-vehicle crashes: Risk perception and responsibility attribution among children, adolescents and adults
Conclusions. We discuss cognitive and perceptual development factors in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood that may contribute to differences in risk perception and responsibility attribution among Chinese pedestrians and suggest future research should explore those processes and subsequently develop evidence-based interventions to reduce pedestrian injury risk. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - December 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Substance use and sociodemographic correlates among adolescents in a low-income sub Saharan setting
Conclusions: Our results suggest that health promotion programs should simultaneously target multiple factors associated with substance use behaviors among school-attending adolescents in Dar es Salaam. They should take into account the range of psychosocial characteristics of school-attending adolescents which may be impacted by or result from substance use. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - November 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

The priority setting of factors affecting a crash severity using the Analytic Network Process
Conclusions:In order to control the crash severity, the presented factors in this study could help traffic safety experts to prioritize and perform controlling actions.  (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - October 22, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Prevalence and pattern of domestic accidents in the field practice area of Jawaharlal Institute of Urban Health Centre, Puducherry: a cross-sectional analytical study
Conclusion: The prevalence of domestic accidents was 10.2% in the present study. It was reported mostly among the adults and in the kitchen, with falls being the most common cause and upper limbs injury being commonest. Most of the houses had objects lying scattered on the floor hindering movement; and stoppers and grab bars were missing from the doors and bathrooms respectively. Overcrowding was significantly associated with domestic accidents. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Measuring the sustainability of a community safety promotion network: working from the inside out
Conclusion: MSC was rich in social resources, but considerable in-kind, human and financial resources were accessed through its ESN. The bridging relationships that connected MSC to its ESN, more than half of which were maintained by six broker network facilitators, were the critical social asset required to access resources and thereby sustain network productivity. MWSC is an open network. Open social networks can never be totally self-sufficient. The ongoing productivity of a social network is dependent on its capacity to develop and maintain productive links with external partners. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Safe and Health Promoting Community: Developing a Model
Conclusion: SHPC model provides a parallel and comprehensive view on safety and health topics in a community. The implementation of an integrated model could be one possible way to enhance the commitments on behalf of state and local government, and health system leaders to prioritize injuries and non-communicable disease prevention to address promotion, prevention, treatment and social consequences of mutual community-based interventions. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Effects of Community Based Fall Prevention Program for Elderly People in Busan Metropolitan City, Korea
Conclusion: This study suggests that this program can improve postural balance and fall efficacy in elders. Therefore, this program is recommended for use in fall prevention programs for elders living in the community. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Crash Severity Assessment: Is There a Need for Revisiting the Current Indicators?
Conclusion: In order to reach a comprehensive tool for measuring crash severity, the evaluation of human, vehicle, and environment could be essential. However, both the comprehensiveness as well as feasibility of measuring crash severity should be integrated. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Research on the needs of vocational high school students for injury prevention and emergency skills education
Conclusion: Junior high school students need to improve their education on potential injury risk factors in life and emergency treatment in the face of injury.It is necessary to carry out injury prevention and emergency skills education among high school students in vocational schools. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Pedestrian Involved Road Traffic Accidents – Case study in Kandy town, Sri Lanka
Conclusion: Pedestrian involved accidents are at a very high percentage. This may be because of low property damage and minor injury relate accidents also considered. Due to various uncertainties and possible underreporting, only fatal accidents and accidents categories as grievous are considered. According to the dataset considered, pedestrians are at high risk on roads compared to other road users. Main culprits in making pedestrian related accidents are other groups of vulnerable road users namely Motorcycle riders and Three-wheeler drivers. Pedestrian related accidents are more prominent during weekends compared to oth...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Playground Safety Assessment by Playground Rating System (PRS) Method in Qom, Iran
Conclusion: The result has shown that all of playgrounds in Qom city are unsafe or has a low safety level and the level of incomes is an important factor in the safety of playground. So considering that playgrounds play an important role in the growth and development of children s physical and mental status and also the dynamics of their cities, especially in cities such as Qom, that due to the holy shrine, is a crowded city, taking corrective actions in order to making safe playground is a top priority. (Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Children with disabilities in Safe Community
Care about people with disabilities is very important for every community, special for safe community. In Safe Community Novi Sad works Nongovernmental organization Faith, Love, Hope. This organization was founded on March 2010. To promote the idea of social inclusion. The main goal of the founders was to organize free time for disabled children out of their school frame. These activities also include the children ’s parents, friends and people from the neighborhood, as well as all others willing to help working with children with different kinds of handicap. Organization gathers more than 100 members, mainly disabled ch...
Source: Journal of Injury and Violence Research - September 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research