EVALUATION OF NAGCAT USING A CASE SERIES OF INJURIES

北美儿童农业任务指南 (NAGCAT)是为了帮助父母和其他人分配适当的 以及为7至16岁在农场生活和/或工作的儿童提供安全的工作 横跨北美。拟议的研究旨在建立在NAGCAT的基础上 通过对指导方针的相关性进行实地测试， 适用性和有效性。拟议研究的目的、评价 使用一系列伤害案例的NAGCAT，是系统地将NAGCAT应用于 儿童遭受致命性和非致命性农场伤害的案例说明 以确定它们的应用是否可能防止了伤害 发生了。具体地说，我们建议汇编一个大型案例系列 美国儿童农场创伤死亡和受伤事件 加拿大使用现有的监测数据、验尸官/法医记录、病例 调查报告和全国调查数据。一旦这个唯一的数据库位于 童年农场伤害已经收集，NAGCAT将系统地 适用于这些案例描述。使用真实生活中的童年农场伤害 案例将提供一些证据，说明NAGCAT的适用程度 可能减少了这些伤害的发生，也突出了常见的 NAGCAT可能未涵盖的伤害机制/情况。

The North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) were developed to assist parents and others in assigning appropriate and safe jobs to children 7 to 16 years who are living and/or working on farms across North America. The proposed research aims to build upon the NAGCAT project by providing a field test of the Guidelines for relevance, applicability, and effectiveness. The purpose of the proposed study, Evaluation of NAGCAT Using a Case Series of Injuries, is to systematically apply NAGCAT to case descriptions of fatal and non-fatal farm injuries experienced by children in order to determine whether their application may have prevented the injury occurrence. Specifically, we propose to assemble a large case series of traumatic childhood farm fatalities and injuries in the United States and Canada using existing surveillance data, coroner/medical examiner records, case investigation reports, and national survey data. Once this unique database on childhood farm injuries has been assembled, NAGCAT will be systematically applied to these case descriptions. The use of real life childhood farm injury cases will provide some evidence of the extent to which application of NAGCAT may have reduced the occurrence of these injuries and also highlight common injury mechanisms/circumstances that may not be covered by NAGCAT.