ALCOHOL-RELATED DROWNING AND SERIOUS BOATING INJURIES

这项提案寻求资金以继续实施 由一等奖发起的关于酒精和伤害的研究 特别强调与酒精有关的溺水。原创一等奖 寻求：开发更好的方法来研究酒精在致命疾病中的作用 受伤。该研究项目已成功开发出一套全面的 全州致命伤害监测系统与 马里兰州法医办公室。该系统包括详细的 与酒精有关的信息，并已被用于多个 描述性和分析性研究。此外，本科生 调查员开发了一个与其他人合作的项目网络 研究人员致力于在水上环境中使用酒精。这项建议 研究试图扩展关于溺水的工作，以包括病例对照 严重船伤(死亡和住院病例)研究； 80%的死亡是由于溺水，20%是由于碰撞 而几乎所有的非致命伤害都是由创伤造成的。迄今为止，研究 集中在与船只无关的溺水事件上，并发现酒精是一种 重要的风险因素。对船只事故的描述性分析揭示了 酒精的参与度也很高。然而，尽管很多人都在关注 人们习惯于酒后驾车，酒后划船在很大程度上被忽视了。 酒精不仅会影响撞车/事故的发生，还会影响 一旦事件发生，在水中生存的能力。因此， 饮酒的风险可能比其他形式的饮酒更大 交通。这项拟议的研究有两个主要目标和两个附加目标： 1)对严重的划船伤害进行深入分析；2) 进行病例对照研究，以确定饮酒和划船的风险。 此外，这项研究将：1)检查醉酒的某些特征 如指定的驾驶程序适用于水上驾驶， 2)发展更好的研究方法，研究酒精与损伤的关系。 这项研究；涉及对水生生物的路边测量的修改 环境；包括关于酒精使用和呼吸器的问卷调查。它 将在马里兰州和北卡罗来纳州进行，这两个州 质量数据系统。来自这些研究的信息将形成 制定减少水生动物饮酒干预措施的依据 并就其他交通运输领域的政策选择提出建议 酒精使用率高并受到制造商积极推广的地方。一个 准确地确定酒精和划船损伤的作用也是 重要的是确定未来对水的预防工作。

This proposal seeks funding for the continuation of the program of research on alcohol and injuries initiated by a FIRST Award, with a special emphasis on alcohol-related drownings. The original FIRST Award sought to: develop better methods to study the role of alcohol in fatal injuries. The research program has successfully developed a comprehensive statewide surveillance system for fatal injuries in collaboration with the Maryland medical examiners' office. This system includes detailed information on alcohol involvement and has been used for a number of descriptive and analytical studies. In addition, the principal investigator has developed a network of collaborative projects with other researchers working on alcohol use in aquatic settings. This proposed research seeks to extend the work on drownings to include a case-control study of serious boating injuries (fatalities and hospitalized cases); Eighty percent of fatalities are due to drownings and 20% to collisions while almost all nonfatal injuries are due to trauma. To date, research has concentrated on non-boat related drownings and found alcohol to be an important risk factor. Descriptive analysis of boating fatalities reveals that alcohol Involvement is also high. However while much attention has been given to drunk driving, drunk boating has been largely ignored. Alcohol may affect not only the initiation of a crash/incident, but also the ability to survive in the water once an event has occurred. Thus the risk of alcohol is likely to be even greater than in other forms of transportation. This proposed research has 2 main and 2 additional aims: 1) conduct an in-depth analysis of serious boating injuries, and 2) conduct a case-control study to determine the risk of alcohol and boating. In addition the study will: 1) examine if certain features of drunk driving such as the designated driver program are applicable on the water, and 2) develop better methods to study,, alcohol involvement in injuries. This study; involves a modification of roadside surveys to the aquatic environment; including questionnaires on alcohol use and breathalizers. It will be conducted in Maryland and North Carolina, two states with high quality data systems. The information from these studies will form the basis for the development of interventions to reduce drinking in aquatic settings and to suggest policy options in another area of transportation where alcohol use is high and actively promoted by manufacturers. An accurate determination of the role of alcohol and boating injuries is also important to determine future prevention efforts on the water.