<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Safetylit: Community-Based Prevention</title><link>http://www.safetylit.org/</link><description>Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.</description><item><title>Cost-benefit analysis of a regional poison center. - Blizzard JC, Michels JE, Richardson WH, Reeder CE, Schulz RM, Holstege CP. </title><category>Community-Based Prevention</category><link>http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&amp;citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88366_3</link><description>BACKGROUND: Funding poison center (PC) operations has become a major challenge nationwide. Increasingly, state and federal budget cuts have resulted in diminished funding to PCs. OBJECTIVES: In an effort to demonstrate the value of current PC phone service...</description></item><item><title>Development and application of a multidimensional suicide prevention program for Korean elders by utilizing a community network. - Jo KH, Kim YK. </title><category>Community-Based Prevention</category><link>http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&amp;citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88721_3</link><description>PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop a multidimensional suicide prevention program for Korean elders by utilizing a community network and to evaluate its effect. METHODS: A non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. The sub...</description></item><item><title>Screening and brief interventions for alcohol: attitudes, knowledge and experience of community pharmacists in Auckland, New Zealand. - Sheridan J, Wheeler A, Ju-Hsing Chen L, Chen-Yun Huang A, Nga-Yee Leung I, Yow-Chyi Tien K. </title><category>Community-Based Prevention</category><link>http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&amp;citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88501_3</link><description>INTRODUCTION: Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol consumption in primary care have been shown to be effective in reducing drinking. This role has not been taken up by community pharmacists. This study aimed to explore attitudes, knowledge, b...</description></item><item><title>The efficacy of a multidisciplinary falls prevention clinic with an extended step-down community program. - Sze PC, Cheung WH, Lam PS, Lo HS, Leung KS, Chan T. </title><category>Community-Based Prevention</category><link>http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&amp;citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88516_3</link><description>OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of a falls prevention clinic and a community step-down program in reducing the number of falls among community-dwelling elderly at high risk of fall. DESIGN: Prospective cohort. SETTING: Community. PARTICIPANTS: Commu...</description></item><item><title>The Zuni life skills development program: a school/community-based suicide prevention intervention. - LaFromboise TD, Lewis HA. </title><category>Community-Based Prevention</category><link>http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&amp;citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88709_3</link><description>The Zuni Life Skills Development Program, an effective community-initiated and high-school-based suicide prevention intervention, is featured. Development and evaluation of this intervention are followed by note of the specific challenges associated with s...</description></item></channel> </rss>