Safetylit: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Analysis of longitudinal data to evaluate a policy change. - French B, Heagerty PJ. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88818_12Longitudinal data analysis methods are powerful tools for exploring scientific questions regarding change and are well suited to evaluate the impact of a new policy. However, there are challenging aspects of policy change data that require consideration, s...Comparison of methods to correct the miscounting of multiple episodes of care when estimating the incidence of hospitalised injury in child motor vehicle passengers. - Du W, Hayen A, Finch C, Hatfield J. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88594_12This study evaluates the performance of different case selection criteria to account for multiple episodes of care when estimating the hospitalisation rate due to road trauma amongst children. The internally linked NSW Inpatient Statistics Collection (ISC)...Counting children at risk : Exploring a method to estimate the number of children exposed to parental mental illness using adult health survey data. - Bassani DG, Padoin CV, Veldhuizen S. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88445_12Children exposed to parental psychiatric disorders have an increased risk of several psychiatric disorders, impaired development, behavioural problems, injuries, physical illness and mortality. Even though this high-risk group has been shown to benefit fro...Just in the wrong place...? Geographic tools for occupational injury/illness surveillance. - Neff RA, Curriero FC, Burke TA. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88865_12BACKGROUND: Geographic analysis is now integral to public health surveillance, but has been underused for occupational injury/illness. METHODS: Mapping and spatial statistics are used to examine national county-level mean establishment Lost Workday Injury/...Measuring the year consumption of alcohol: the development of a questionnaire. - Jansen H, Lahaut V, Garretsen H, van de Mheen D. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88330_12Most general alcohol consumption population surveys are meant to represent the year consumption, although they actually ask only for habitual drinking and/or frequencies and quantities of binge drinking in the past months. These surveys typically cover abo...The reliability and predictive accuracy of the falls risk for older people in the community assessment (FROP-Com) tool. - Russell MA, Hill KD, Blackberry I, Day LM, Dharmage SC. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88344_12BACKGROUND: the Falls Risk for Older People in the Community assessment (FROP-Com) tool was designed for use in targeted multi-factorial falls prevention programmes. It fills the gap between the short screening tools and the longer assessment tools, e.g. t...Traffic accident segmentation by means of latent class clustering. - Depaire B, Wets G, Vanhoof K. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88630_12Traffic accident data are often heterogeneous, which can cause certain relationships to remain hidden. Therefore, traffic accident analysis is often performed on a small subset of traffic accidents or several models are built for various traffic accident t...Underreporting in traffic accident data, bias in parameters and the structure of injury severity models. - Yamamoto T, Hashiji J, Shankar VN. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88622_12Injury severities in traffic accidents are usually recorded on ordinal scales, and statistical models have been applied to investigate the effects of driver factors, vehicle characteristics, road geometrics and environmental conditions on injury severity. ...Use of cultural consensus analysis to evaluate expert feedback of median safety. - Kim TG, Donnell ET, Lee D. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88605_12Cultural consensus analysis is a statistical method that can be used to assess participant responses to survey questions. The technique concurrently estimates the knowledge of each survey participant and estimates the culturally correct answer to each ques...Using multiple datasets to understand trends in serious road traffic casualties. - Lyons RA, Ward H, Brunt H, Macey S, Thoreau R, Bodger OG, Woodford M. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88611_12Accurate information on the incidence of serious road traffic casualties is needed to plan and evaluate prevention strategies. Traditionally police reported collisions are the only data used. This study investigate the extent to which understanding of tren...Validation of the 30-day version of the brief young adult alcohol consequences questionnaire for use in longitudinal studies. - Kahler CW, Hustad J, Barnett NP, Strong DR, Borsari B. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88663_12ABSTRACT. Objective: The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (B-YAACQ) was developed using item response modeling to provide a brief and readily interpretable measure of negative alcohol consequences over the past year among college studen...Validation of virtual reality as a tool to understand and prevent child pedestrian injury. - Schwebel DC, Gaines J, Severson J. Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Modelshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_88613_12In recent years, virtual reality has emerged as an innovative tool for health-related education and training. Among the many benefits of virtual reality is the opportunity for novice users to engage unsupervised in a safe environment when the real environm...