title: Education and prevention for teens: using Trauma Nurses Talk Tough presentation with pretest and posttest evaluation of knowledge and behavior changes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Bronson Methodist Hospital, Trauma Surgery Services, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007, USA. allabauc@bronsonhg.org
authors.forename: Chianti Terri
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Allabaugh
authors.forename: Sheldon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maltz
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: Kuanwong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watcharotone
mesh_terms: 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*