Injury Indicators for Children and Youth in Canada
Contact: Shannon Piedt, spiedt@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To develop injury indicators for Canadian children and youth
Leads: Dr. Ian Pike (UBC) & Dr. Alison Macpherson (York)
Collaborators: The Canadian Injury Indicators Development Team, Safe Kids, SMARTRISK, Transport Canada, PHAC, CIHI, ACICR, CAPHC, TAC, CCC
Funders and Years: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2006-2007)
Outcome: This project was highly successful and resulted in the development of 34 injury indicators in the following domains: 1) Overall 2) Health Services Implications 3) Motor Vehicle Injury 4) Sport, Recreation and Leisure 5) Other Policy-related 6) Violence and 7) Trauma Care Quality and Outcome. Indicators were agreed upon by injury researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The indicators will be available for use through a published report in spring 2010.
Child and Youth Policy Indicators
Contact: Shannon Piedt, spiedt@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To evaluate four injury prevention policy indicators: 1) child restraint legislation, 2) graduated licensing legislation, 3) bicycle helmet legislation and 4) the presence of coordinated pediatric trauma services
Leads: Dr. Mariana Brussoni(UBC), Dr. Ian Pike(UBC) & Dr. Alison Macpherson(York)
Collaborators: BC Ministry of Healthy Living & Sport, Nova Scotia Dept. of Health Promotion & Protection, TAC, Safe Kids, SMARTRISK
Funders and Years: CIHR, CYHRNet, BC Child Health, and Public Health Agency of Canada (2008-2011)
Projected Outcome: Each of these indicators is being evaluated on three levels: policy level, the risk factor level and the outcome level. Quantitative data are being collected on bike helmet use and graduated driver licensing behaviours. An injury prevention policy scoring tool is being developed through this project.
First Nations and Inuit Children and Youth Injury Indicators Project
Contact: Shannon Piedt, spiedt@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To develop national injury indicators specific to children and youth in First Nations and Inuit populations.
Leads: Dr. Ian Pike (UBC) & Dr. Alison Macpherson (York)
Collaborators: Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, FNIHB, Regional Longitudinal Health Survey, RCMP, Indian and Northern Affairs, SMARTRISK, Plan-It-Safe, Canadian Red Cross, Katenies Research and Management Services, Statistics Canada, Nunatsiavut Dep’t of Health and Social Development, and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Funders and Years: First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) (2006 – 2009)
Outcome: The 27 injury indicators will be available for use through a published report in spring 2010.
First Nations and Inuit Child and Youth Injury Dashboards
Contact: Shannon Piedt, spiedt@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To plan the design, look, and feel of an online dashboard that would feature the injury indicators in a useful way
Leads: Dr. Ian Pike (UBC) & Dr. Alison Macpherson (York)
Collaborators: Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, FNIHB, Regional Longitudinal Health Survey, Canadian Red Cross, Katenies Research and Management Services, Statistics Canada, and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Funders and Years: FNIHB, Child and Youth Health Research Network, and CIHR (2009)
Outcome: Further funds are being sought to develop an online dashboard for First Nations and Inuit child and youth injury indicators
Injury in BC’s Aboriginal Communities: Building Capacity While Developing Knowledge
Contact: Dr. Mariana Brussoni, mbrussoni@cw.bc.ca
Goal: This project seeks to compare injury rates across Aboriginal communities; explore risk and protective factors; and establish community-based injury surveillance for the development of culturally appropriate intervention strategies.
Leads: Drs. Chris Lalonde(UVic) & Anne George(UBC)
Co-Investigator: Dr. Mariana Brussoni(UBC)
Collaborators: UBC, UVIC, the Inter-Tribal Health Authority and various Aboriginal communities in BC
Funders and Years: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (2007-2010)
Projected Outcome: Establishment of sustainable, long-term community based injury surveillance in participating communities. Research articles on Aboriginal community-based research and the community-level injury risk and protective factors.
Fathers’ Child Injury Prevention Attitudes and Practices
Contact: Dr. Mariana Brussoni, mbrussoni@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To understand the range and scope of fathers’ safety practices with their 2 to 7 year old children; and examine fathers’ use of safety information and resources
Lead: Dr. Mariana Brussoni(UBC)
Collaborators: Drs. Lise Olsen, Anne George, BC Council for Families
Funders and years: Vancouver Foundation (2008-2010)
Projected Outcome: Ability to tailor and improve safety promotion programs targeted at fathers. The results will also be directly applied to existing parenting programs.
BC Burden of Injury Study
Contact: Dr. Mariana Brussoni, mbrussoni@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To understand individual and contextual factors that affect injury rehabilitation across injury types; estimate quality of life changes from pre-injury to 12 months post-injury across different injury types; estimate personal costs, costs of health care service utilization, and costs to the economy and labour market
Lead: Dr. Mariana Brussoni(UBC)
Funders: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Projected Outcome: Developing a cost-effective method of conducting on-going patient follow-up for injured patients seen in Canadian hospitals. Additional data to assist with determining the actual cost of injury in Canada.
Exploring the safety perceptions and preventive behaviours of parents with children with disabilities and chronic conditions:
Contact: Dr. Mariana Brussoni, mbrussoni@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To understand parents’ concerns related to child safety; how they manage safety concerns; and facilitators and barriers to safety efforts
Lead: Dr. Lise Olsen (UBC)
Collaborators: Drs. Mariana Brussoni, Anton Miller & Maureen O’Donnell (UBC)
Funders and years: BC Children’s Hospital Telethon
Projected Outcome: Improvement of safety-related resources for parents of children with disabilities and chronic conditions. Better understanding of considerations needed for children at greater risk of injury.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Project Surveillance Team
Contact: Fahra Rajabali, frajabali@cw.bc.ca
Goal: This project aims to provide province wide implementation of the Period of PURPLE crying program for the prevention of abusive traumatic brain injury among infants. The main objective of the surveillance team is to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of this program. The evaluation takes the form of active and passive surveillance as well as quality improvement procedures.
Leads: Dr. Ronald Barr
Co-investigators: Dr. Ian Pike (UBC) & Dr. Ash Singhal (BC Children’s Hospital)
Funders and Years: Ministry of Child and Family Development (2007-2011)
Projected Outcome: Understanding the effectiveness of the Period of PURPLE Crying program to (a) reach targeted groups; (b) reduce shaken baby syndrome and abusive injury in infants generally; and (c) achieve a cultural change in the community’s understanding of early crying and its relationship to shaking.
Commentary on barriers for walking and cycling in our communities
Contact: Dr.Edi Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To identify barriers to active lifestyles in our communities
Lead: Dr. Edi Desapriya (UBC)
Collaborators: Dr. Sayed Subzwari (UBC), Deborah Susges (UTO), Giulia Scime (BCIRPU)
Funders and years: Not applicable
Projected Outcome: Evidence based practices that reduce barriers to active lifestyles will be identified.
Obesity and motor vehicle injuries-Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review
Contact: Dr.Edi Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To identify whether obesity is a determinant of injury and mortality among individuals involved in motor vehicle crashes (MVCs)
Lead: Dr. Edi Desapriya (UBC)
Collaborators: Dr. Sayed Subzwari (UBC), Deborah Susges (UTO), Kate Turcotte (BCIRPU)
Funders and years: Not applicable
Projected Outcome: This research will quantify the risk of MVC-related injury and mortality sustained by obese vehicle occupants as compared to those who are of normal body stature.
Injury Prevention in Child Death Review: Child Pedestrian Fatalities
Contact: Dr.Edi Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To demonstrate the unique capacity for child death review to provide comprehensive ecological data on fatal injury events and inform injury prevention practice and policy. Child pedestrian fatalities were chosen as the dataset.
Collaborators: BC Child Death Review Unit (CDRU), Dr. Ian Pike (UBC), Giulia Scime (BCIRPU)
Funders and years: Not applicable
Projected Outcome: This research will empirically show how child death review data can be utilized to inform pediatric unintentional injury prevention in British Columbia.
Reducing occupant injury in rear end collisions
Contact: Dr.Edi Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca
Goals: 1) Develop new strategies to better implement existing knowledge into practice, and 2) Develop new knowledge and technology to both remove the role of the operator from the safety system and to enhance occupant protection through the design of future vehicle/occupant integrated active whiplash mitigation systems.
Leads: Dr. Doug Romilly (UBC)
Co-investigators: Dr. Marc White (UBC), Dr. Dinithi C Peiris (BCIRPU), Dr. Jean-Sebastian Blouin (UBC), Dr. Peter Lawrence (UBC), Dr. Gunter Siegmund (UBC), Dr. Anne Snowdon (U of Windsor)
Funders and Years: Auto 21-Network of Centers of Excellence Canada (2009-2011)
Projected Outcome: Strategies to prevent motor vehicle crash related neck and whiplash injuries.
Child infant safety seat outside vehicle use-related injuries in Canada
Contact: Dr.Edi Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To identify demographic and other risk factors of infant child safety seat outside vehicle use-related injuries from the CHIRPP national data base
Co-investigators: Dr. Ash Singhal (BC Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Ian Pike (UBC)
Funders and years: BC Children’s Hospital Telethon grant (2009-2010)
Projected Outcome: This research will highlight demographic and other risk factors related to child infant safety when used outside of vehicles. Evidence-based practices to reduce these types of injuries will be provided.
Too Hot for Tots Evaluation
Contact: Kate Turcotte, kturcotte@cw.bc.ca
Goal: To evaluate the Too Hot for Tots burns prevention DVD Package
Leads: Frances MacDougall & Dr. Shelina Babul (UBC)
Funders and Years: BCCH Pediatric Plastic Surgery and the Non-Fire Fighters Burn Fund, 2010
Outcome: A new DVD package has been produced out of BC Children’s Hospital to address and acknowledge the need for burns prevention materials for the parents of young children. This evaluation will assess the ability of this prevention program to change parents’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in relation to burns prevention, and to compare two methods of dissemination: Public Health Nurse information session versus on-line access.
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