Education and prevention for teens: using Trauma Nurses Talk Tough presentation with pretest and posttest evaluation of knowledge and behavior changes.
Injury prevention is an essential part of any trauma program. Trauma Nurses Talk Tough (TNTT) is an injury prevention program utilized at many trauma centers targeting school-aged children from kindergarten through 12th grade. We hypothesized that TNTT would increase knowledge of safety strategies and change behavior with a prospective, correlational study using TNTT for 6th- to 8th-grade (n = 372) and 9th- to 12th-grade (n = 158) students, respectively. The TNTT injury prevention program had an effect on all students of 6th to 12th grades; however, the effect was more pronounced in the 6th- to 8th-grade group.
Allabaugh
Chianti Terri
CT
Bronson Methodist Hospital, Trauma Surgery Services, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007, USA. allabauc@bronsonhg.org
Maltz
Sheldon
S
Carlson
Glenn
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Watcharotone
Kuanwong
K
D000056:Accident Prevention; D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001642:Bicycling / Q000293:injuries; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan / Q000453:epidemiology; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000458:organization & administration; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014193:Trauma Centers; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*