Original scientific articleA Multidisciplinary Youth Violence-Prevention Initiative: Impact on Attitudes
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Methods
After Institutional Review Board approval, recruitment for our violence-prevention program was open to youths ages 7 to 17 years, geographically selected as living within the catchment area of our trauma center by their attendance at one of two Baltimore Police Athletic League (PAL) centers.3
Participants were given a package survey of six previously validated scales, both pre- and postintervention, to assess their attitudes about interpersonal conflicts. This package included:
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Beliefs
Results
Between May 2002 and November 2003, after pilot testing, a total of 97 youths were recruited to participate in this project. Mean age of the children was 12.6 years, with 54 boys (55.7%). Among them, 48 children (49.4%) completed the program with both pre- and postintervention tests, with a mean of 25.8 days between tests.
There was a statistically significant reduction in the Beliefs Supporting Aggression scale (mean –38 U; 95% CI, −0.23 to −0.54; p < 0.01), and a trend toward reduced
Discussion
A previous report suggested that enhanced resources on a focused trauma service were associated with improved patient outcomes, and that the benefits were largely attributable to improvements seen with blunt trauma patients, particularly those with severe head injuries. The finding that the majority of patients with lethal gunshot wounds were declared dead shortly after arrival in the emergency department, and that the majority of these patients were ages 15 to 24, suggested that any additional
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Supported by a grant from the American Trauma Society.