Lessons learned from evaluated child agricultural safety interventions

As part of the Blueprint for Knowledge Translation Project, an update regarding effective childhood agricultural injury prevention interventions was undertaken. This presentation reports the results of a review of existing childhood agricultural safety interventions, identifies strengths, weaknesses and gaps in current interventions and public health strategies, and identifies challenges and recommendations for improving interventions. Findings from child ag injury intervention research were gathered through a survey of published literature in OVID & PubMED databases from 2001 to 2009. A classification scheme was developed with 22 variables including: funder, target population, level of ecological model, study design, evaluation type, work status, age, special populations. Coding accuracy was assessed by comparing independent classifications of randomly selected articles by three investigators. 27 articles met the inclusion criteria. NIOSH was the funder of 2/3 of these. Intervention targets were primarily children themselves (81%), followed by rural populations (mostly parents), and educators (9%). Most interventions focused on youth 6-19 years old. Just three studies focused on the population