In your peer responses, explain why you agree or disagree with the study design and approach that they chose and offer a different perspective (if possible) as to how they may have benefited from using another type of study design or asking a different research question. must be in APA 6th edition. and must use one scholarly reference.
Spinal Cord Injuries from Recreational Sports
Spinal Cord Injuries from Recreational Sports
Spinal cord injuries are amongst those that participate in recreational sports can be prevented through state funded initiatives such as sports safety commercials and state monitored participant safety gear requirements. If provided funding to perform a pilot program study, I would conduct a community trial as an effort to prove that each state possess the potential to decrease and prevent morbidity and mortality associated with spinal cord injuries caused by recreational sports. I would start my study by first, reviewing the literature associated with current or past initiatives with the same goal. Secondly, I would create a non-complex hypothesis statement. Lastly, I would elaborate on all of the limitations, strengths, and weaknesses of the study design.
Community Trials as Interventions
Community Trials are initiated by identifying potential communities for trial participation. These communities will be handpicked based on a high incidence rate for spinal cord injuries as a result of recreational sports, and would additionally be monitored for prevalence of spinal cord injuries in a particular sub-set of the population. With required blessings from the designated officials that oversee the communities, the following proposal would be presented for study format would be presented for the review. As provided by Friis & Sellars (2009), a schematic diagram of a community trial as an intervention for spinal cord injuries caused by recreational sports would include the following:
1.) Population (a) and (b)
2.) Observation of Injury Incidence/Specified Time
3.) Distribute Randomized Interventions
4.) Measure the Outcomes for both groups that received the intervention and those that did not.
Pilot Program Grant Proposition
Purpose
To provide community level safety interventions for spinal cord injuries due to recreational sport activities.
Hypothesis
Will the rate of spinal cord injury incidence decrease for populations that have prevention programs in place?
Methods (Solomon Four-Group Assignment)
For exactly 24 months, I would measure the outcomes for communities that have been provided an intervention for safer recreational sports participation. After selecting four communities that have a consistent or high rate for spinal cord injuries over the last 2 years, I would select two of these communities to integrate community sensitive safety intervention programs.
Outcomes
The outcomes would measured by contrasting an decrease, increase, or stagnation for the rate of incidence for spinal cord injury
LimitationsExpected strengths and weaknesses of the study would be the consistent and inconsistent reporting of spinal cord injuries as a result of recreational sports participation from local acute care settings and hospital emergency departments. In addition, additional support from the local school system and state officials would be required for success.
Public Health Applications
It is well documented that Community Trials as Interventions are successful as indicators for the need for legislation change, or ongoing public health awareness initiatives. According to Pless (2000), the occurrence of spinal cord injuries were increasing annually with hockey season. Pleas for government interventions for safety requirement were requested as generalized recommendations for safer recreational interactions. These pleas were not aggressively pursued in that hockey has is sports that is well liked by Canadian (Pless, 2000). The United States alone reports that at least 50 million injuries and 180, 000 fatalities. These injuries are inclusive of spinal cord injuries and associated with at least a $400 billion. As an effort to exist as proactive residents against the unnecessary occurrence of spinal cord injuries due to recreational activity participation, we must demand injury prevention resources from our local health department. By doing so, we are able to benefit from the utilization of the recommended public health approach of surveillance, risk potential and protective measure identification, create and test control strategies, and structured promotion of control strategies (Jesada, Kohn, Stier, & Thrombley 2012).
References
Friis, R. H., & Sellers, T. A. (2009). Epidemiology for public health practices (4th ed.). Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Jesada, R. A., Kohn, M. A., Stier, D. D., & Thombley, M. L., (2012). The Status of Legal Authority for Injury Prevention Practice in State Health Departments. American Journal of Public Health, 102
Pless, I. B. (2000). Preventing spinal cord injuries: Is this the best we can do? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 162(6), 792-3. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/204809730?accountid=8289 (6): 1067-76.