Keywords

Injury, Nurses, Prevention, Teens, Trauma

 

Authors

  1. Allabaugh, Chianti Terri BSN, RN
  2. Maltz, Sheldon MD, FACS
  3. Carlson, Glenn MSN, APRN, CCRN
  4. Watcharotone, Kuanwong MS

ABSTRACT

Injury prevention is an essential part of any trauma program. Trauma Nurses Talk Tough (TNTT) is an injury prevention program utilized at many trauma centers targeting school-aged children from kindergarten through 12th grade. We hypothesized that TNTT would increase knowledge of safety strategies and change behavior with a prospective, correlational study using TNTT for 6th- to 8th-grade (n = 372) and 9th- to 12th-grade (n = 158) students, respectively. The TNTT injury prevention program had an effect on all students of 6th to 12th grades; however, the effect was more pronounced in the 6th- to 8th-grade group.