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An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis
BACKGROUND: Injury is a major cause of mortality and morbidity of young people and the cost-effectiveness of many injury prevention programs remains uncertain. This study aimed to analyze the costs and benefits of an injury awareness education program, the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-relate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22929004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-279 |
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author | Ho, Kwok M Geelhoed, Elizabeth Gope, Monica Burrell, Maxine Rao, Sudhakar |
author_facet | Ho, Kwok M Geelhoed, Elizabeth Gope, Monica Burrell, Maxine Rao, Sudhakar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Injury is a major cause of mortality and morbidity of young people and the cost-effectiveness of many injury prevention programs remains uncertain. This study aimed to analyze the costs and benefits of an injury awareness education program, the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth) program, for juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia. METHODS: Costs and benefits analysis based on effectiveness data from a linked-data cohort study on 225 juvenile justice offenders who were referred to the education program and 3434 who were not referred to the program between 2006 and 2011. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 8869 hospitalizations and 113 deaths due to violence or traffic-related injuries among those aged between 14 and 21 in Western Australia. The mean length of hospital stay was 4.6 days, a total of 320 patients (3.6%) needed an intensive care admission with an average length of stay of 6 days. The annual cost saved due to serious injury was $3,765 and the annual net cost of running this program was $33,735. The estimated cost per offence prevented, cost per serious injury avoided, and cost per undiscounted and discounted life year gained were $3,124, $42,169, $8,268 and $17,910, respectively. Increasing the frequency of the program from once per month to once per week would increase its cost-effectiveness substantially. CONCLUSIONS: The P.A.R.T.Y. injury education program involving real-life trauma scenarios was cost-effective in reducing subsequent risk of committing violence or traffic-related offences, injuries, and death for juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia. |
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spelling | pubmed-34709392012-10-16 An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis Ho, Kwok M Geelhoed, Elizabeth Gope, Monica Burrell, Maxine Rao, Sudhakar BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Injury is a major cause of mortality and morbidity of young people and the cost-effectiveness of many injury prevention programs remains uncertain. This study aimed to analyze the costs and benefits of an injury awareness education program, the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth) program, for juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia. METHODS: Costs and benefits analysis based on effectiveness data from a linked-data cohort study on 225 juvenile justice offenders who were referred to the education program and 3434 who were not referred to the program between 2006 and 2011. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 8869 hospitalizations and 113 deaths due to violence or traffic-related injuries among those aged between 14 and 21 in Western Australia. The mean length of hospital stay was 4.6 days, a total of 320 patients (3.6%) needed an intensive care admission with an average length of stay of 6 days. The annual cost saved due to serious injury was $3,765 and the annual net cost of running this program was $33,735. The estimated cost per offence prevented, cost per serious injury avoided, and cost per undiscounted and discounted life year gained were $3,124, $42,169, $8,268 and $17,910, respectively. Increasing the frequency of the program from once per month to once per week would increase its cost-effectiveness substantially. CONCLUSIONS: The P.A.R.T.Y. injury education program involving real-life trauma scenarios was cost-effective in reducing subsequent risk of committing violence or traffic-related offences, injuries, and death for juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia. BioMed Central 2012-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3470939/ /pubmed/22929004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-279 Text en Copyright ©2012 Ho et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ho, Kwok M Geelhoed, Elizabeth Gope, Monica Burrell, Maxine Rao, Sudhakar An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title | An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title_full | An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title_fullStr | An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title_short | An injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in Western Australia: an economic analysis |
title_sort | injury awareness education program on outcomes of juvenile justice offenders in western australia: an economic analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22929004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-279 |
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