EVALUATION OF NAGCAT USING A CASE SERIES OF INJURIES

北美儿童农业任务指南 （NAGCAT）的制定是为了帮助家长和其他人分配适当的 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以NAGCAT为基础， 通过实地测试《准则》的相关性， 适用性和有效性。拟议研究的目的，评价 NAGCAT使用伤害案例系列，是系统地应用NAGCAT， 儿童所经历的致命和非致命农场伤害的案例描述 以确定它们的应用是否可以防止伤害 发生。具体来说，我们建议收集一个大型病例系列， 美国的创伤性童年农场死亡和受伤， 加拿大使用现有监测数据、验尸官/法医记录、病例 调查报告和国家调查数据。一旦这个独一无二的数据库 儿童农场伤害已经组装，NAGCAT将系统地 适用于这些案例描述。使用真实的生活中的童年农场伤害 案例将提供一些证据，说明NAGCAT的应用程度 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.