The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Sorting and Packaging the Evidence to Reduce Distracted Driving
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the barriers for practitioners to implementing evidence-based interventions
2. Understand the process of conducting limited systematic reviews
3. Understand the process of packaging information about evidence-based interventions
Statement of Purpose
Many injury prevention programs are designed without consideration of behavior change theories and implemented with no evidence of effectiveness. These often one-time awareness campaigns lack proper evaluation. The proliferation of ineffective programs continues despite attempts to educate the injury prevention workforce on identifying evidence-based strategies. The Injury Prevention Committee of the Texas Governor’s EMS & Trauma Advisory Council conducted an extensive literature review and ranked intervention strategies on their effectiveness to impact injury mortality/morbidity.
Methods/Approach
The focus of the first review was limited to interventions that which reduce or prevent distracted driving. The Nursing Levels of Evidence from "Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice" and the “Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation” (GRADE) were used to determine criteria for evidence-based strategies/interventions. Only publications that included evaluation of distracted driving prevention measures/countermeasures were reviewed. As a result of examining the utility of these tools, we developed a fusion of the tools. We categorized (ranked) the publications/manuscripts based on the quality of the study method/evaluation indicated in the papers. We then utilized a color indicator based on the actual findings of these ranked studies to help signal appropriate (positive outcome) interventions (green), interventions to use caution with (yellow), Inappropriate (harmful or negative outcome) intervention (red), and inconclusive (gray). Therefore, we sorted the interventions based on the quality of their evaluation and the results of that evaluation.
Results
Twenty articles describing 19 interventions met the criteria for inclusion: 2 interventions were placed in the Green category, 3 interventions were placed in the Yellow category, 1 intervention was placed in the Red category, and 13 interventions were placed in the Gray category.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
A one-page, color-coded fact sheet depicting the results was prepared and disseminated to stakeholders. In supplement, a full document including abstracts and references from the 20 studies was prepared. Future plans are to monitor funding and increase in implementation of evidence-based interventions.
Presenters
Shelli Stephens-Stidham, Parkland Health & Hospital System
Biography
Shelli Stephens-Stidham, M.P.A., is the Director of Population Health Impact at Parkland Health & Hospital System, where she is responsible for the Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas (IPC), as well as overseeing population health prevention activities. She is responsible for leading the implementation and evaluation of community-based primary prevention strategies to decrease injuries, violence, and chronic health issues.