@article{ref1,
title="Effectiveness of school-based interventions to prevent traffic accidents: an overview of secondary literature",
journal="Epidemiologia e Prevenzione",
year="2016",
author="Guerriero, Chiara and Verdina, Federico and Ferri, Chiara and Pizzaguerra, Martina and Silvestri, Silvia and Tober, Nastassja and Ristagno, Quenya and Costa, Alessandro and Cerasuolo, Michele and Faggiano, Fabrizio and Allara, Elias",
volume="40",
number="5",
pages="360-365",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: traffic accidents are the eighth cause of death worldwide and the first among subjects aged 15-29 years. The Italian National Road Safety Plan recommends school-based interventions to prevent traffic accidents. Presently, there is no document gathering evidence on the effectiveness of such interventions in relation to the Italian context.  OBJECTIVES: to summarize and discuss the existing evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in reducing traffic accidents.  METHODS: guidelines and systematic reviews were searched, using the following criteria: target population including both males and females younger than 25; road safety school-based interventions; effects on primary outcome indicators such as reduction in the number of traffic accidents, refraining from driving under the influence of alcohol and/or from accepting lifts from drivers who are under the influence of alcohol; effects on secondary outcome indicators such as knowledge and skills regarding driving behaviour.  CONCLUSIONS: two systematic reviews were identified. Road safety programmes in schools show no evidence of effectiveness in reducing traffic accidents (relative risk: 1.03; 95%CI 0.98-1.08). More specific educational programmes lead to results that are only partially convincing, as they regard the adoption of a safer driving behaviour such as refraining from driving under the influence of alcohol and from accepting lifts from drivers who are under the influence of alcohol.  DISCUSSION: no school-based programme emerged as effective in reducing car accidents and its risk factors. While waiting for new studies on this topic, it seems appropriate to promote the implementation of multi-component school-based and community-based interventions for which there is some evidence of effectiveness.  Keywords: traffic accidents, school-based interventions, evidence-based prevention, guidelines<p /> <p>Language: it</p>",
language="it",
issn="1120-9763",
doi="10.19191/EP16.5.P360.111",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.19191/EP16.5.P360.111"
}