Injury Prevention Across Life Span IPALS

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Injury Prevention Across Life Span
(IPALS) Parminder Raina1, Colin Macarthur2 and
IPALS Team 1McMaster University, Department of
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
2Bloorview MacMillan Children's Centre,
Bloorview Research Institute,

• IPALS APPROACH
• Systems and multi-level perspective
• Community, neighbourhoods, family,
  individuals
• Population Health approach
• Social, economic, and physical
  environments, behaviours, individual
  capacity and coping skills, health
  services, and human biology
• Life Course Perspective
• Critical and Sensitive Periods
• Multidisciplinary and Collaborative

Who are we? IPALS is a multi disciplinary group
focused on reducing the burden on unintentional
injury across all ages in Canada. IPALS includes
researcher, policy-makers and consumer
organizations who want to position Canada as a
leader in injury research and prevention. Team
Members Parminder Raina, McMaster
University Colin Macarthur, Bloorview MacMillan
Childrens Centre Barbara Morrongiello,
University of Guelph Alexandra Papaioannou,
Hamilton Health Sciences Harry Shannon, McMaster
University Ian Pike, University of British
Columbia Allyson Hewitt, Safe Kids Canada Andrew
Howard, Hospital for Sick Children. Curtis
Breslin, Institute of Work and Health. Philippa
Holowaty, The Regional Municipality of
Halton Alison Macpherson, York University Lise
Olsen, University of British Columbia William
Montelpare, Lakehead University Joy Lang,
MOHTLC Will Pickett, Queens University Brent
Hagel, University of Alberta Paul Masotti, Queens
University

• IPALS Current Capacity Building
• IPALS Funded Postdoctoral Trainee
• Postdoctoral Fellow B. Barton, University of
  Guelph
• Research Project Identifying Risk Factors in the
  Etiology of Childrens Pedestrian Injuries
• IPALS Funded Trainee
• PhD Student L. Olsen, UBC
• Research Project Understanding Mothers Efforts
  to Safeguard Children in the Home Environment.
• PhD Student L. Griffith, University of Toronto
• Research Project Understanding the Relationship
  Between Workplace Mechanical Exposures and Low
  Back Injury Using Individual Participant
  Meta-Analysis

IPALS GOALS To develop an integrated,
interdisciplinary team to reduce the burden of
injury. The team includes Scientists, policy
makers, clinical/ public health practitioners,
voluntary sector safety organizations, and
community stakeholders To build capacity in the
field by training a new generation of injury
researchers from a variety of disciplines To
develop and promote evidence-based injury
prevention policies, programs and practice, using
an interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral
perspective To generate new knowledge, translate
existing knowledge, and disseminate information
to key stakeholders in academic and community
settings.
IPALS Funded Pilot Projects Principal
Investigators Lina Santaguida, Karen
Szala-Meneok, McMaster University Research
Project Development and Pilot Testing of an
evidence based Education Training Module to
Prevent Low Back Injuries in Entry Level
Healthcare Workers. Principal Investigators
Moira McPherson, Carlos Zerpa, William
Montelpare, Lakehead University Research
Project Measuring the effectiveness of a
teaching module designed to demonstrate helmet
use as a method to reduce head trauma and
MTBI Principal Investigator C. Breslin,
University of Toronto Co-Investigator H.
Shannon, McMaster University Research Project
Systematic review of risk factors for work injury
among youth Principal Investigator A. Sawka,
University of Toronto Co-Investigators A.
Papaioannou, J. Ranford, J.D. Adachi, L. Thabane,
R. Goeree, P. Raina, and A. Gafni Research
Project What are the beliefs and attitudes of
administrators and nursing staff in long-term
care facilities to hip protectors? Principal
Investigator D. Fiissel, Hospital for Sick
Children Co-Investigators A. Howard and Colin
Macarthur, Hospital for Sick Children Research
Project Parental thresholds for injury
acceptability on school playgrounds
Recent Acheivements of IPALS Team Grants
Awarded Morrongiello BA, Barton BK (59,037 3 YR)
CIHR Advancing research methods, knowledge of
injury etiology, and prevention efforts in
pediatric pedestrian injury research Breslin FC,
MacEachen E, Shannon H, Morrongiello B (50,000 1
YR)CIHR                                    
Work injuries among adolescents Towards a
gendered conceptual framework. Pickett W, Dosman
J, Brison RJ, Marlenga B, Day L, Hagel L, Crowe
T, Biem J, Pahwa P (1,184,650 5 YR)
CIHR Saskatchewan Farm Injury Cohort
Study Pickett W, Janssen I, Craig W, Boyce W
(393,356 4 YR) CIHR Risk behaviour and injury
study in Canadian youth Macarthur, C Falls in
young children A Systematic Review of Risk
Factors and Interventions. City of Toronto Public
Health (33,000 1YR)) Team Planning Dev.
Grants-Toward Enhanced Quality of Life through
injury prevention. Competition Results
2006 Howard, Andrew W, Children's traffic and
road injury prevention (TRIP) team 98,083
Morrongiello, Barbara A, Supervision influences
on unintentional pediatric injury in three
high-risk contexts (home, work and farm
settings) From etiology to intervention 100,000
Pike, Ian, MacPherson, Alison, Canadian injury
indicators development team Children and youth,
98,700

• Future Capacity Building Activities
• Recruiting of new Post Doc Fellows, PhD and
  Masters trainee
• Development of an online course from the
  Population Health Systems approach, and
  Life Course perspective
• Submission of a Team Grant to CIHR

IPALS Symposium The theme of the inaugural IPALS
symposium held in October 2004 was
interdisciplinary collaboration.  This event
allowed IPALS team members to network and forge
new relationships with researchers from the
Ontario Training Centre, the Alberta Centre for
Injury Research and Control at the University of
Alberta, Lakehead University and Queens
University. A second symposium is being planned
for the fall of 2006 and will bring together the
IPALS team and the recently awarded projects
teams from the Team Planning Dev.
Grants-Toward Enhanced Quality of Life through
injury prevention. Competitions 2006.
Funding for this research has been provided by
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research,
Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement,
Institute of Health Services and Policy
Research (IHSPR), Ontario Ministry of Health and
Long Term Care(MOHLTC), and Safe Kids Canada.