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Emily Rauscher; Greer Mellon; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The academic and economic benefits of school spending are well-established, but focusing on these outcomes may underestimate the full social benefits of school spending. Recent increases in U.S. child mortality are driven by injuries and raise questions about what types of social investments could reduce child deaths. We use close school district…
Descriptors: School Taxes, Expenditure per Student, Mortality Rate, Youth
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Megan Hammill; Victoria Rapos; Michael Cinelli – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
Children tend to make more last-minute locomotor adjustments than adults when avoiding stationary obstacles. The purpose of this study was to compare avoidance behaviors of middle-aged children (10-12 years old) with young adults during a head-on collision course with an approaching virtual pedestrian. Participants were immersed in a virtual…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Motor Development, Decision Making
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Connor M. Hults; Yifan Ding; Geneva G. Xie; Rishi Raja; William Johnson; Alexis Lee; Daniel J. Simons – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
People often fail to notice unexpected stimuli when their attention is directed elsewhere. Most studies of this "inattentional blindness" have been conducted using laboratory tasks with little connection to real-world performance. Medical case reports document examples of missed findings in radiographs and CT images, unintentionally…
Descriptors: Medicine, Negligence, Accident Prevention, Health Services
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Higgins, Lauren Q.; Labban, Jeffrey D.; Stout, Ruth D.; Fairbrother, Jeffrey T.; Rhea, Christopher K.; Raisbeck, Louisa D. – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2021
Adults (N = 54, 80.78 ± 6.08 years) who reported falling during the previous 12 months participated in a 12-week wobble board training program with internal focus or external focus (EF) instructions. Verbal manipulation checks were performed after training sessions as a self-report of the attentional foci used. The percentage of sessions in which…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Attention Control, Human Posture, Health Behavior
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Ross, Wendy; Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Qualitative research on creativity often highlights the role of accidents in creative process, but there is little research that takes these as its main topic. Perhaps because a model that relies on accidents undermines the meaningfulness of creativity; perhaps because the phenomenon itself is too complex to underwrite an entire research program.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Accidents, Models, Research
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Doherty, Alison J.; Benedetto, Valerio; Harris, Catherine; Ridley, Julie; O'Donoghue, Annette; James-Jenkinson, Lynn; Fidler, Dave; Clegg, Andrew – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Falls are common among people with intellectual disabilities. Many falls happen within the home. Our scoping review aimed to identify evidence for falls-risk factors and falls-prevention interventions for this population. Method: We conducted a multi-database search to identify any type of published study that explored falls-risk…
Descriptors: Prevention, Accidents, Family Environment, Intellectual Disability
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Stark, Moray S.; Tsokou, Aimilia M.; Howells, Alix – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Chemical spillage has been measured for undergraduate students undertaking a laboratory practical designed to help develop their chemical handling skills. There was a low correlation found between the amount of chemical spilled and the ability to accurately carry out the primary goal of the experiment, which was to measure the concentrations of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Accidents, Accident Prevention, Undergraduate Students
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Cody L. I. Speece; Dannon G. Cox; Sasha Krause – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2023
Cross country has grown in popularity and provides youth with the ability to put into practice both physical capability and mental strength and preparedness. However, such preparedness can also lead to physical injuries such as shin splints, or mental fatigue, which can lead to dropout and/or burnout. Yoga is an activity that has become…
Descriptors: Athletics, Health Behavior, Athletic Coaches, Student Athletes
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Warin Krityakiarana; Chonnikan Thippawan; Chairuean Nattanicha; Pongporn Jullumjiak – Research in Dance Education, 2024
Thai classical dance has earned recognition across the world, however, attention on the health of dancers has not been well implemented. This study aimed to report on the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in Thai classical dancers. The descriptive cross-sectional survey study was implemented. A total of 356 (amateur = 221, professional = 135)…
Descriptors: Dance, Asian Culture, Human Body, Injuries
James G. Kailie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Transportation Security is considered one of the important aspects of U. S. Critical Infrastructure resilience and civil security. However, safety issues in transportation regarding 'struck-by' incidents involving Emergency First Responders (EFRs) (Fire, Police, and EMS) while performing essential duties on roadways stand to diminish this…
Descriptors: Driver Education, Prediction, Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
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Kim, Dohyung; Park, Keunhyun – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To identify factors that contribute to near-miss collisions between pedestrians and personal transportation devices (PTDs) in a university campus using a novel data collection method, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Participants: A total of 3,349 pedestrians and 173 PTD riders were detected through UAV observations. Methods: The…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Transportation, College Environment, Safety
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Nakia C. Best; Ann O. Nichols; Bosny Pierre-Louis; Jessica Hernandez – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
School nurses are pivotal to the safety of school-aged children, particularly those who receive medications in the school setting. The purpose of this study was to explore factors associated with medication administration errors in North Carolina school districts between 2012/2013 and 2017/2018. A longitudinal study using repeated measures…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Public Schools, Medicine, Error Correction
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Shields, Reece; Liu, Jiling – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2023
Tackle football has the highest number of injuries in contact sports. Certain injuries in the head and neck may severely impact the player's physical, neurological, and physiological functionality, even sudden death, as well as the quality of their personal life in the long run. These injuries commonly occur during a collision when a defender is…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Accident Prevention, Injuries, Psychomotor Skills
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Ekroll, Vebjørn; Svalebjørg, Mats; Pirrone, Angelo; Böhm, Gisela; Jentschke, Sebastian; van Lier, Rob; Wagemans, Johan; Høye, Alena – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
The purpose of the present note is to draw attention to the potential role of a recently discovered visual illusion in creating traffic accidents. The illusion consists in a compelling and immediate experience that the space behind an occluding object in the foreground is empty. Although the illusion refers to a region of space, which is invisible…
Descriptors: Accidents, Traffic Safety, Visual Perception, Validity
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Jun Hao; Yeh Hsueh; Katherine Kitzmann; Haojie Yuan; Yaping Yue – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Parental supervision, parental risk perception, and parental risk attitudes constitute an important parenting environment for the development of young children. To examine the mechanisms of Chinese parenting environment on young children's risk-taking behaviors, this study first established a four-factor model and surveyed 497…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes
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