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Traffic Injury Prevention: Strategies That Work
Published in James M. Rippe, Lifestyle Medicine, 2019
Ann M. Dellinger, David A. Sleet, Merissa A. Yellman
Despite the great success in reducing motor vehicle-related death rates in the past 50 years, motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Primary care practitioners have the opportunity to reduce death and injury using a variety of strategies, including screening and counseling.119–121 Practitioners also can help patients understand the importance of reducing their exposure to risk on the road, and the importance of safety behaviors. In clinical practice, traffic injury prevention can become a regular part of the practice of lifestyle medicine and integrated into care and preventive services. Injury prevention science has demonstrated that traffic injuries are not “accidents”—they are predictable and preventable. Through efforts to educate and change behaviors, have strong safety laws and enforcement, and encourage more effective use of technology and engineering, lifestyle medicine can contribute to reducing traffic injuries and help promote a culture of safety.122
Beach safety education: A behavioural change approach
Published in Mike Tipton, Adam Wooler, The Science of Beach Lifeguarding, 2018
The models in Table 16.1 suggest that safety behaviour is influenced by a combination of knowledge of recommended safety practices, awareness of the risk, social pressure, normative values and motivation. They provide a framework for explaining how these factors may interact and how to influence these behaviours. In aggregate the models would suggest that it is important to take the following actions: Help people recognize unsafe behaviours and their consequencesRecognize if people feel they are not susceptible and raise the profile of (underestimated) risksAddress any misconceptions of risks and behaviours, as well as social pressures and normsDemonstrate the benefits of changing behaviours, as well as the severity of harm if they do notEnsure people feel confident and able to implement the suggested behavioursCite credible behaviours when trying to change behavioursEnsure the source of advice is credible
Exercise and Anxiety Disorders
Published in Henning Budde, Mirko Wegner, The Exercise Effect on Mental Health, 2018
Jennifer Mumm, Sophie Bischoff, Andreas Ströhle
Patients with agoraphobia show fear and/or avoidance behavior concerning at least two different situations (e.g. crowds or public transport). These situations provoke a lot of fear when patients are confronted with them. They often try to avoid these situations or use safety behavior to be able to stand the confrontation. In severe cases of avoidance patients are very impaired and cannot leave their apartments any more. Safety behavior might be an accompanying person, a cell phone, a bottle of water or special cognitions (e.g. counting down from 100 to 0). The 12-month prevalence of agoraphobia without panic disorder is about 0.7–2.0% and women are affected twice as frequently as men. The first manifestation of the disorder is normally between the ages of 20 and 30 (Goodwin et al. 2005; Michael, Zetsche, & Margraf 2007).
Implementing Strategic Flexibility in the Delivery of Youth Mental Health Care: A Tailoring Framework for Thoughtful Clinical Practice
Published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2020
Christopher Georgiadis, Tara S. Peris, Jonathan S. Comer
When it comes to treatment flexibility, it’s critical for providers to understand the principles that underlie specific procedures outlined in treatment protocols. One cannot effectively adapt a treatment task in a protocol without a clear understanding of the intended function(s) of that modification. For example, a therapist using an individual treatment manual for a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may choose to incorporate family members into therapy sessions in order to address low child motivation during exposure tasks. However, if the therapist does not appreciate that the function of the exposure task is to increase the child’s anxiety, and that the presence of family members is serving as a distraction, then the modification may inadvertently promote the use of safety behavior which is contraindicated in the treatment of OCD (Conelea et al., 2012). As such, given that exposure is a core component of effective treatment for OCD in youth (Freeman et al., 2018), modifications that address motivation to complete the exposure without attenuating its effects are more appropriate (e.g., reducing the difficulty of the exposure or including more pre-exposure processing). Importantly, for a given case, the treatment component(s) selected for flexible implementation should be conceptually linked with the tailoring factor(s) that call for treatment flexibility, but also linked theoretically to principles of the treatment.
Effects of organizational safety on employees’ proactivity safety behaviors and occupational health and safety management systems in Chinese high-risk small-scale enterprises
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020
Qiang Mei, Qiwei Wang, Suxia Liu, Qiaomei Zhou, Jingjing Zhang
Safety behavior is a multidimensional concept, and involves participating in safety activities, helping colleagues, seeking welfare for colleagues, voicing safety concerns and complying with safety procedures and rules. Safety participation and SCBs are both multidimensional and have similar concepts [44]. However, Curcuruto et al. [45] stated that considering safety participation as a single concept may be simplistic, as this cannot fully explain the relationship between safety performance and safety management. Moreover, safety behavior should be considered as having different dimensions rather than being one single concept. By contrast, based on the characteristics of OCBs, SCBs were divided into more specific dimensions, such as helping, voice, stewardship, whistleblowing, civic virtue and initiative, although these sub-dimensions seem overly divided [15]. Thus, this study uses prosocial and proactive safety behaviors as the sub-concept of proactivity safety behaviors.
Predictors of safety behaviors among cement factory workers
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Bahman Baraei, Hassan Mahmoodi, Khaled Rahmani, Koen Ponnet, Tahereh Pashaei
Safety behaviors are the most important factors in preventing work-related accidents among workers [1]. Safety behaviors are individuals’ behaviors that promote health, increase safety in the workplace [2] and require individuals to avoid risks and comply with safety procedures [3]. On the other hand, unsafe behaviors including violations of instructions and safe work procedures [4] are the cause for 88% of all industrial accidents [5]. Despite the availability of safety instructions and guidelines, there are still many workplace accidents that harm workers [6]. Annually, more than 60,000 work-related fatalities are reported worldwide [7], and the majority of work-related accidents are due to unsafe behaviors rather than workplace conditions [1,8].