{"id":1492,"date":"2014-12-04T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2014-12-04T08:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:10:03","slug":"engagement-the-fourth-e-in-injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2014\/12\/04\/engagement-the-fourth-e-in-injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement: The fourth ‘E’ in injury prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers of the Injury Prevention blog will know what a keen advocate I am for the fourth ‘E’ in injury prevention: Engagement. I firmly believe that engagement is vital to\u00a0transforming and translating education, engineering and enforcement efforts into real world advances in injury prevention. I know that in the domain of my own research and injury prevention efforts – young driver road safety – that young drivers want to be engaged with<\/strong>, and talked with<\/strong>, not TALKED AT<\/em> and TOLD WHAT TO DO<\/em>. Think about yourself as a teen – did that work with you? Providing such agency is the first sure step in making inroads in their safety, increasing their ownership and investment in injury prevention efforts and outcomes.<\/p>\n

So you can understand how pleased I was when I saw a recent Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences<\/a> article by Latimer, Chaboyer, and &Gillespie in which hospital patient perceptions regarding prevention and treatment of\u00a0pressure injuries were explored. I particularly liked their closing comment that “If patient participation as a pressure injury prevention strategy is to be considered, nurses and organisations need to view patients as partners.”. I would argue that this should be extended to all injury prevention strategies, and that patient\/target participation should not only be considered, it should be an essential component.<\/p>\n

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Regular readers of the Injury Prevention blog will know what a keen advocate I am for the fourth ‘E’ in injury prevention: Engagement. I firmly believe that engagement is vital to\u00a0transforming and translating education, engineering and enforcement efforts into real world advances in injury prevention. I know that in the domain of my own research […]<\/p>\n

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