Lack of Helmet use in Children? Statistics indicate that traumatic brain injury through bicycle accidents has increased as a result of lack of use of helmets in children. The use of helmet among children is dependent on many factors that relate to their diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds which needs to be studied in order to provide important information in regard to this aspect. The following information needs to be discussed by the collaborative committee on the lack of child helmet use in on bicycles.
The number of child deaths resulting from lack of use of child helmets in bicycles.
How the design of helmets contributes to the child use of helmets in bicycles
How the comfort of the helmets impacts the use of child helmets in bicycles.
How lack of knowledge of child helmet has impacted the use of child helmet use in bicycles.
The level of information that the population, especially parents and guardians have in relation to impacts of lack of use of child helmets in bicycles.
Examples of strategies that can be applied in enhancing child road safety.
And finally, the different stakeholders in child road safety in relation to use of helmets in bicycles.
Useful Research Types? Research will be important in establishing the impacts of the above factors and the relationship with the lack of child helmet use. The following types of research will be most useful in getting enhancing the information into this issue. Prescriptive research will be very useful in this case because it will enable the authorities to make suggestions to the people, recommend actions/choices and also give some solutions to this problem. Explanatory research will also be useful because it will help to answer the question behind the lack of use of child helmets. Predictive research will enable the forecasting of the impacts of the lack of child helmet use in bicycles. The three research types will be able to complement each other thus resulting in better findings.
Useful Databases? The following databases will be important in enabling the study and discussion relating to lack of child helmet use in bicycles. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Insurance Institute for High way Safety in provision of the important statistics relating to this issue. Helmet.org will also be useful in this discussions.