Development of a Comprehensive and Interactive Tool to Inform State Violence and Injury Prevention Plans

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• Alternative Title:
  J Public Health Manag Pract
• Personal Author:
  Wilson, Lauren ; Deokar, Angela J. ; Zaesim, Araya ; Thomas, Karen ; Kresnow-Sedacca, Marcie-jo
• Description:
  Context
  
  The Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP) provides an opportunity for states to engage with their partners to implement, evaluate, and disseminate strategies that lead to the reduction and prevention of injury and violence. Core SVIPP requires awardees to develop or update their state injury and violence plans. Currently, literature informing state planning efforts is limited, especially regarding materials related to injury and violence. Presumably, plans that are higher quality result in having a greater impact on preventing injury and violence, and literature to improve quality would benefit prevention programming.
  
  Objective
  
  (1) To create a comprehensive injury-specific index to aid in the development and revision of state injury and violence prevention plans, and (2) to assess the reliability and utility of this index.
  
  Design
  
  Through an iterative development process, a workgroup of subject matter experts created the Violence and Injury Prevention: Comprehensive Index Tool (VIP:CIT). The tool was pilot tested on 3 state injury and violence prevention plans and assessed for initial usability. Following revisions to the tool (ie, a rubric was developed to further delineate consistent criteria for rating; items were added and clarified), the same state plans were reassessed to test interrater reliability and tool utility.
  
  Results
  
  For the second assessment, reliability of the VIP:CIT improved, indicating that the rubric was a useful addition. Qualitative feedback from states suggested that the tool significantly helped guide plan development and communicate about planning processes.
  
  Conclusion
  
  The final VIP:CIT is a tool that can help increase plan quality, decrease the research-to-practice gap, and increase connectivity to emerging public health paradigms. The tool provides an example of tailoring guidance materials to reflect academic literature, and it can be easily adapted to other topic areas to promote quality of strategic plans for numerous outcomes.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Index Injury Prevention Program Implementation State Health Departments State Plans Strategic Planning Violence Prevention
• Source:
  J Public Health Manag Pract. 24(Suppl 1 INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION):S59-S66.
• Pubmed ID:
  29189505
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5784825
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  24
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7e13ea7ce2122741aea479c950ec3660d2cd7bc745fb75cd7883e09a4bb01417
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51169/cdc_51169_DS1.pdf
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