{"title":"Case-control study of fatal bicycle crashes in peri-urban areas of Delhi.","authors":"Rasagna Paturi, Srishti Agrawal, Sumit Bilam, Kavi Bhalla, Rahul Goel","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045262","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>There is a lack of evidence on interventions to improve the safety of cycling use in low- and middle-income countries. We investigated the impact of road design and traffic characteristics on the fatality risk of bicyclists.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Our study population is the road sites in the peri-urban areas of New Delhi, India. We used a retrospective, population-based case-control study design. We identified 50 case sites (road locations) where a fatal cycle crash had occurred over a 3-year period. For control sites, we intercepted and interviewed three cyclists at each case site, mapped their route to the crash location using Google Maps and selected one random location on each of those routes as controls. We recorded traffic and road design characteristics at the case and control sites. We used a logistic regression model to estimate ORs of site characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a strong effect of the presence of U-turns on the likelihood of a bicycle fatality, with an OR of 4.4 (95% CI 1.8, 11.5). This effect is robust against multiple sensitivity analyses. We found that the volume of cars is associated with an increased likelihood and that of motorcycles with a reduced likelihood of bicycle fatalities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results indicate that the presence of U-turns is a strong risk factor for bicycle fatalities in Delhi. Given the strong evidence of their impact on the safety of bicyclists, their construction should be discontinued in zones of high bicycle presence.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142499767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterising fire or burn-related fatalities in the USA using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2003-2020.","authors":"Saroj Bista, Bridget Duffy, Nichole L Michaels","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Intentional fire or burn-related deaths are rare in the USA compared with some countries, but do occur, and our knowledge of their epidemiology is limited. The objective of this study is to epidemiologically describe fire or burn-related deaths resulting from violence, including victim and suspected perpetrator characteristics and incident circumstances.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study uses National Violent Death Reporting System data from 2003 to 2020 to examine violent fire or burn-related deaths among individuals of all ages. Analyses include the following case types: (1) fire or burn-related injuries were immediate, underlying or antecedent cause of death; (2) death resulted from arson; or (3) weapon used was categorised as 'fire or burns'. Precipitating circumstances were examined by manner of death (ie, suicide, homicide or undetermined intent) using χ<sup>2</sup> tests, with p values of <0.05 indicating statistical significance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 4395 victims, most were male (64.6%), non-Hispanic white (60.8%) and 20-64 years (72.7%). Deaths by suicide were most common (38.9%), followed by homicides (32.6%) and undetermined deaths (28.5%). Current mental health (53.4%) and substance use problems (15.0%) were common among suicide deaths. One-half (49.8%) of homicide deaths were precipitated by another crime and 19.5% were related to intimate partner violence.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The prevalence of mental health and substance use problems among suicide victims underscores the urgency for targeted prevention strategies and timely interventions. Stressors, such as interpersonal conflicts and financial problems, may contribute to fire or burn-related violent deaths.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142499768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eugenio Weigend Vargas, Jason Goldstick, Laura Vargas
{"title":"Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean.","authors":"Eugenio Weigend Vargas, Jason Goldstick, Laura Vargas","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Every year, thousands of people from Latin America and the Caribbean are migrating to the USA. Policy-makers have argued that US firearms are fuelling violence in these countries and are contributing to migration. The objective of this article is to examine the proportion of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean arriving at the US border who have previously been threatened with a firearm. This article further explores sociodemographic factors associated with the likelihood of previous firearm-related threats, whether those threats are associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as the reasons behind those threats.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were obtained from a survey of migrants recruited at the southern US border from March 2022 to August 2023. To be selected, respondents had to be 18 years of age or older, had to speak English or Spanish and come from a Latin American or Caribbean country. We used descriptive statistics and a logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We analysed 321 cases. Roughly, 48% of respondents reported previous firearm-related threats. Males and respondents coming from Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador were more likely to report previous firearm-related threats. There was a strong association between previous firearm-related threats and signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. Most threats occurred during robberies or extortions, but other threats were perpetrated by authorities, to prevent crime reporting, or by intimate partners.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Understanding the violence, particularly firearm-related violence, experienced by those migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean could help guide policy discussion and actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142499681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther Lee, Briana A Scott, Hsing-Fang Hsieh, Marc Zimmerman, Amy Rusch, Justin Heinze
{"title":"Identifying facilitators and barriers to implementing the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System in Miami-Dade County, USA: a qualitative study.","authors":"Esther Lee, Briana A Scott, Hsing-Fang Hsieh, Marc Zimmerman, Amy Rusch, Justin Heinze","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Multiple anonymous reporting systems (ARS) have been implemented to prevent school violence and improve school climate. This study examines the facilitators and barriers to implementation and the role and usability of the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System (SS-ARS).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>10 qualitative interviews with key staff and administrators from intervention schools in the Miami-Dade County School District were conducted between July and December 2020. Using a thematic framework analysis of interview transcripts, we identified major themes related to the SS-ARS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Students used the SS-ARS to report issues related to violence, mental health and substance use. The SS-ARS provided training and safe reporting channels, enabling prompt responses from administrators. Successful anonymous reporting system implementation requires ongoing training for students and personnel, a multidisciplinary response team and integration into a comprehensive school safety effort.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study highlights key facilitators and barriers to implementing ARS in schools, offering three takeaways for practitioners: (1) include ongoing training for students and personnel, (2) establish a multidisciplinary team to respond to reports and integrate ARS into a comprehensive safety effort and (3) encourage reporting on a range of concerns. Interviews were conducted with school personnel, with findings primarily reflecting their perspectives, thereby limiting the ability to generalise the findings to students. Although conducted in schools within Miami-Dade County, an urban US county, the findings may be relevant for practitioners implementing ARS or similar initiatives in educational settings globally, given the ubiquity of violence and mental health issues among adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142499682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura K Harrison, Chethan Sathya, Monica Shekher-Kapoor, Stephen Butkus, Sandeep Kapoor
{"title":"Development, dissemination and survey evaluation of layered education for healthcare professionals to support implementation of firearm injury and mortality prevention strategies in emergency care settings, New York, USA.","authors":"Laura K Harrison, Chethan Sathya, Monica Shekher-Kapoor, Stephen Butkus, Sandeep Kapoor","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045333","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is consensus on the need and ability to address firearm injury risk in healthcare settings; however, the lack of education for healthcare professionals hinders the implementation of evidence-based firearm injury and mortality prevention strategies. The objectives of this study are to develop, disseminate and evaluate education for team members to facilitate implementation in emergency departments METHOD: Two-tiered education was developed in partnership with stakeholders and disseminated to the healthcare team, covering evidence-based screening and interventions for firearm access and violence risk. The implementation, development and dissemination strategies followed the framework used for systemwide Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment implementation for substance use. Team members who screened patients for firearm injury risk received screening education and team members meeting with patients who screened positive received intervention education. Participants completed surveys to evaluate the education and learning objectives.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across three emergency departments from March 2021 to May 2022, 267 team members completed screening education. Key takeaways reported by 173 participants were how to screen (24.9%), the 5L's of Firearm Safety (19.7%) and the prevalence of firearm injury (11.0%). Participants still had questions about workflow, resources and safety. 34 of 67 (50.7%) intervention education participants completed the postsurvey. 100% were confident they could screen, 79% were confident they could provide brief interventions and 88% were confident their site could implement firearm injury prevention strategies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Tiered education for firearm injury prevention screening and intervention achieved learning objectives and facilitated programme implementation. Education increased knowledge and confidence regarding firearm injury risk screening and its importance in healthcare settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142499680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabrielle F Miller, Christopher Dunphy, Yara K Haddad, Jufu Chen, Alen Alic, Karen Thomas, Amy F Wolkin
{"title":"Rates of fall injuries across three claims databases, 2019.","authors":"Gabrielle F Miller, Christopher Dunphy, Yara K Haddad, Jufu Chen, Alen Alic, Karen Thomas, Amy F Wolkin","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045346","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In 2021, among all age groups, falls ranked as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death in the USA. Unlike fatal data, which rely on death certificates as the gold standard, there is not a gold standard for non-fatal data. Non-fatal falls data are often based on insurance claims or administrative billing data. The purpose of our study is to compare three claims databases to estimate rates of unintentional fall-related hospitalisations in 2019, the most recent year of available data across the three sources.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three databases were used to produce incidence rates of fall-related hospitalisations for the year 2019: (1) Merative MarketScan research databases, (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data and (3) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) National Inpatient Sample. Inpatient falls were identified using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Incidence rates per 100 000 people were then produced across all three datasets by payer type. Unadjusted incidence rate ratios were estimated with corresponding 95% CIs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were wide disparities among fall rates between the three datasets by payer type. HCUP had the highest rate of falls among Medicare (1087.6 per 100 000) and commercial enrollees (74.7 per 100 000), while CMS had the highest rates of falls among Medicaid enrollees (148.0 per 100 000).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study shows wide variation in fall hospitalisation rates based on the claims data used to estimate rates. This study suggests that database selection is an important consideration when determining incidence of non-fatal falls.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and validation of Parents' Health Literacy Scale on Preventing Road Traffic Injuries for children aged 0-6 years in China.","authors":"Xiaohong Li, Miaomiao Chen, Yuheng Feng, Xueqi Ma, Jicui Zheng, Hanlin Shen, Jingwei Xia, Kaiyue Chen, Ying Guo, Qianghua Xia, Yu Jiang, Jun Lu, Fengshui Chang","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in children. Parents' health literacy (HL) is closely related to child safety, especially for the young children. This study aimed to develop an intervention-oriented parent HL scale: Parents' Health Literacy Scale on Preventing Road Traffic Injuries (PHLS-PRTIs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed the scale including four parts: (1) definition and conceptualisation of PHLS-PRTIs; (2) domain and item development; (3) instrument construction; and (4) psychometric property validation. 685 parents participated in process of development (n=333) and validation (n=352). Cronbach's α and test-retest correlation were used to assess reliability. Content validity and construct validity were used to assess validity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The scale consisted of five domains (access, understand, belief, communication and use) and 16 subdomains. The Cronbach's α for each domain and the whole scale was 0.85, 0.70, 0.87, 0.80, 0.79 and 0.85, respectively. The test-retest reliability was acceptable (intraclass correlations >0.70). Content validity was good (item-level content validity index >0.79, average of the scale-level content validity index >0.80, kappa >0.74). For construct validity for domain understand, χ<sup>2</sup>/df=1.723, p=0.009, standardised root mean square residual (SRMR)=0.0404, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.045, Comparative Fit Index (CFI)=0.942, Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI)=0.910; and for the other four domains, χ<sup>2</sup>/df=1.840, p<0.001, SRMR=0.043, RMSEA=0.049, CFI=0.958, TLI=0.952.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PHLS-PRTIs was developed and validated by a rigorous process, providing a tool for community doctors to measure parents' HL on child road traffic safety and develop targeted health education interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Price, Fadia M Shebbo, Salman Mroueh, Rebeccah L Brown, Samar Al-Hajj
{"title":"Evaluation of a distribution, education and awareness intervention for child passenger safety in Lebanon: a low-income and middle-income country setting.","authors":"Michelle Price, Fadia M Shebbo, Salman Mroueh, Rebeccah L Brown, Samar Al-Hajj","doi":"10.1136/ip-2023-045224","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ip-2023-045224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Eastern Mediterranean Region suffers disproportionately from paediatric traffic-related injuries. Despite governmental laws, Lebanon-an eastern Mediterranean country-has low child restraint (CR) use prevalence. This study examined the impact of using car seat distribution, and child passenger safety education and awareness intervention to improve child passenger safety knowledge and practices among caregivers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study recruited Lebanese caregivers with one child or more, using a 4-wheel motor vehicle, and not using a car seat. The intervention comprised an educational session followed by a car seat or booster seat distribution and installation check by a certified child passenger safety technician. A baseline assessment questionnaire was used to identify reasons for prior CR non-use. A child passenger safety knowledge test was administered before, immediately after and 3 months postintervention to assess child passenger safety knowledge retention and compare it to the baseline using the conditional logit model for pre-post interventions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty-eight participants underwent the intervention. Affordability was identified as the primary reason for car seat non-use. Three months after the intervention, compliance with CRs use was reported at 100%, and correct responses on the knowledge test significantly increased (p<0.05) for all items except for harness tightness (p=0.673).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our child passenger safety intervention resulted in improved knowledge and increased self-reported use of CRs in a caregivers' cohort in Lebanon. Further efforts should address sociocultural and economic barriers and the lack of local child passenger safety technicians to mitigate the region's paediatric road traffic injury and death toll.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bertus Jansen van Rensburg, Martin Schwellnus, Darren Green, Audrey Jansen van Rensburg, Esme Jordaan, Sonja Swanevelder, Nicola Ann Sewry
{"title":"Factors associated with a history of acute traumatic cycling injuries in 60 941 cycling race entrants in South Africa: SAFER study XLII.","authors":"Bertus Jansen van Rensburg, Martin Schwellnus, Darren Green, Audrey Jansen van Rensburg, Esme Jordaan, Sonja Swanevelder, Nicola Ann Sewry","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Information on acute traumatic cycling injuries (ATCIs) in the 12 months prior to entry in a cycling race and the predisposing factors have not been well-researched.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Determine factors associated with a history of ATCIs sustained in the previous 12 months by race entrants of a 109 km cycling race.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Descriptive, cross-sectional study on 60 941 Cape Town Cycle Tour race entrants from 2016 to 2020. Data on a history of ATCIs sustained in the previous 12 months were obtained through an online pre-race medical screening questionnaire (mandatory in 2016, and voluntary in 2017-2020). Factors investigated were demographics, cycling/training history and history of chronic disease, collapse, cramping, allergies and regular chronic prescription medication usage. We calculated the prevalence ratio (PR) for reporting a history of an ATCI in the previous 12 months for each category (multiple regression model).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Factors associated with an increased PR for a history of ATCIs gathered from race entrants (34% of the total entrants) were: increased years of participation in distance cycling events >2 hours (PR=1.05 per 5 years of distance cycling, p<0.0001), increased weekly average training/racing distance of a cyclist in the past 12 months (PR=1.11 per 50 km increase in weekly cycling). Other factors were: increased number of chronic diseases reported (PR=1.53, per two additional chronic diseases reported, p<0.0001), history of collapse (PR=1.75, p=0.0005), history of cramping (PR=1.65, p<0.0001) and history of allergies (PR=1.49, p<0.0001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Subgroups of recreational cyclists at higher risk for ATCIs were identified. This information could assist in developing and implementing future strategies to mitigate ATCIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142464371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philippe Richard, Mathieu Gagne, Paul-André Perron, Jérémie Sylvain-Morneau
{"title":"Prioritising preventive measures for unintentional sport and recreation-related deaths in Québec, Canada, based on a 14-year review.","authors":"Philippe Richard, Mathieu Gagne, Paul-André Perron, Jérémie Sylvain-Morneau","doi":"10.1136/ip-2024-045410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study analysed sport and recreation-related fatalities in Québec, Canada, from January 2006 to December 2019, focusing on the six activities with the highest mortality frequencies. It aimed to identify activity-specific risk factors to inform prevention priorities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this descriptive retrospective study, data extracted from the database of the Bureau du coroner du Québec were analysed. The characteristics and mechanisms of fatalities in all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, cycling, swimming, motorised navigation and non-motorised navigation activities were presented. Incidence rates were calculated using Canadian census data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Male fatalities predominated, ranging from 83% to 91%, in the six activities. Traumatic brain injuries or cranial traumas were reported in 55.7% of land-based activities-related deaths, particularly in 70.1% of cycling fatalities. In 44.2% of cycling-related cases, victims were not wearing a helmet, while in 44.1% of cases involving all-terrain vehicles, victims either wore a helmet improperly or did not wear one at all. Cycling deaths mainly occurred on roads (82.9%), with 63.9% involving collisions with motor vehicles. Alcohol-impaired driving was observed in 29.8% of victims involved in all-terrain vehicle and snowmobile activities combined. Natural water accounted for 67.1% of swimming fatalities. Alcohol consumption was documented in 28.8% of deaths related to water-based activities. Personal flotation devices were not worn in 61.5% of navigation-related fatalities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Activity-specific prevention priorities have been highlighted. A thorough examination of coroners' recommendations is now necessary to understand their characteristics, as this information can guide both the identification and implementation of preventive measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":13682,"journal":{"name":"Injury Prevention","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}