NCJ Number
197218
Date Published
June 2002
Length
114 pages
Annotation
This research agenda of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control focuses on answering questions that will have a relatively rapid impact on the prevention of injuries and the reduction of their consequences.
Abstract
To organize the body of potential research on injury prevention and control for this agenda, the Injury Center used a model for the phases of research that extends from work by Holder and his colleagues. Building on other health research, the approach suggests that research moves along a continuum from basic and descriptive research to intervention development and testing to research about disseminating and maintaining effective intervention strategies. In each chapter of this report, research priorities are outlined for a category of injuries. The chapters cover the prevention of the following categories of injuries: injuries at home and in the community; injuries in sports, recreation, and exercise; transportation injuries; intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment; suicidal behavior; and youth violence. Among the top priorities for preventing intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment are to evaluate strategies to disseminate and implement science-based parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment; to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions and policies to prevent the perpetration of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment; and to identify social norms that support intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment and evaluate strategies to change them. The highest research priorities for preventing youth violence include the evaluation of dissemination strategies for the most effective youth violence prevention programs; the evaluation of the effectiveness of community-wide parenting programs for youth violence prevention; evaluation of the effectiveness of youth violence prevention strategies; and the identification and evaluation of strategies to decrease inappropriate access to and use of firearms among youths. The concluding chapter of this report presents research priorities for acute care, disability, and rehabilitation. Subject index