The effect of the Swedish bicycle helmet law for children: An interrupted time series study

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-22

  Bonander, Carl ^a   Nilson, Finn ^a   Andersson, Ragnar ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bicycling; Injury control; Intervention; Legislation; Policy

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SAFETY DEVICES; TIME SERIES;

AUTOREGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE; BICYCLING; CONTROL GROUPS; DIFFERENCES-IN-DIFFERENCES; HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS; INTERVENTION; OUTCOME MEASURES; PERCENTAGE POINTS; BICYCLE HELMET; SWEDISHS;

BICYCLES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CYCLING; FEMALE; HELMET; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURIES; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BICYCLING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84906684615     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. E. Amoros, M. Chiron, J.L. Martin, B. Thélot, and B. Laumon Bicycle helmet wearing and the risk of head, face, and neck injury: A French casecontrol study based on a road trauma registry Injury Prevention 18 1 2012 27 32 10.1136/ip.2011.031815
2. R.G. Attewell, K. Glase, and M. McFadden Bicycle helmet efficacy: A meta-analysis Accident Analysis and Prevention 33 3 2001 345 352 (Pubitemid 33592938)
3. M.R. Bambach, R.J. Mitchell, R.H. Grzebieta, and J. Olivier The effectiveness of helmets in bicycle collisions with motor vehicles: A case-control study Accident Analysis and Prevention 53 2013 78 88
4. M.A. Benjamin, R.A. Rigby, and D.M. Stasinopoulos Generalized autoregressive moving average models Journal of the American Statistical Association 98 461 2003 214 223 (Pubitemid 36446655)
5. P. Berg, and R. Westerling Bicycle helmet use among schoolchildren - The influence of parental involvement and children's attitudes Injury Prevention 7 3 2001 218 222 (Pubitemid 33326695)
6. P. Berg, and R. Westerling A decrease in both mild and severe bicycle-related head injuries in helmet wearing ages - Trend analyses in Sweden Health Promotion International 22 3 2007 191 197 (Pubitemid 47357639)
7. A. Biglan, D. Ary, and A.C. Wagenaar The value of interrupted time-series experiments for community intervention research Prevention Science 1 1 2000 31 49
8. G.E. Box, and G.M. Jenkins Time series analysis: Forecasting and control 1976
9. C.F. Clarke Evaluation of New Zealand's bicycle helmet law New Zealand Medical Journal 125 1349 2012
10. B.A. Collins, J.D. Langley, and S.W. Marshall Injuries to pedal cyclists resulting in death and hospitalisation The New Zealand Medical Journal 106 969 1993 514
11. A. Cook, and A. Sheikh Trends in serious head injuries among English cyclists and pedestrians Injury Prevention 9 3 2003 266 267
12. M.J. Crawley Proportion data Statistics: An introduction using R 2007 247 262
13. W.J. Curnow The Cochrane collaboration and bicycle helmets Accident Analysis and Prevention 37 3 2005 569 573 10.1016/j.aap.2005.01.009 (Pubitemid 40357115)
14. H.T.O. Davies, I.K. Crombie, and M. Tavakoli When can odds ratios mislead? BMJ: British Medical Journal 316 7136 1998 989
15. J.J. de Hartog, H. Boogaard, H. Nijland, and G. Hoek Do the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risks? Environmental Health Perspectives 118 8 2010 1109 1116
16. J. Dennis, B. Potter, T. Ramsay, and R. Zarychanski The effects of provincial bicycle helmet legislation on helmet use and bicycle ridership in Canada Injury Prevention 16 4 2010 219 224
17. J. Dennis, T. Ramsay, A.F. Turgeon, and R. Zarychanski Helmet legislation and admissions to hospital for cycling related head injuries in Canadian provinces and territories: Interrupted time series analysis BMJ (Online) 346 7912 2013
18. B. Depreitere, C. Van Lierde, S. Maene, C. Plets, J. Vander Sloten, and R. Van Audekercke et al. Bicycle-related head injury: A study of 86 cases Accident Analysis and Prevention 36 4 2004 561 567 10.1016/S0001-4575(03)00062-9
19. M.M. Dinh, S. Roncal, T.C. Green, E. Leonard, A. Stack, and C. Byrne et al. Trends in head injuries and helmet use in cyclists at an inner-city major trauma centre, 1991-2010 Medical Journal of Australia 193 10 2010 619 620
20. J.C. Escanciano, and I.N. Lobato An automatic portmanteau test for serial correlation Journal of Econometrics 151 2 2009 140 149
21. S. Ferrari, and F. Cribari-Neto Beta regression for modelling rates and proportions Journal of Applied Statistics 31 7 2004 799 815 (Pubitemid 39173835)
22. C.F. Finch Teenagers attitudes towards bicycle helmets three years after the introduction of mandatory wearing Injury Prevention 2 2 1996 126 130 (Pubitemid 126081150)
23. Gallup Future of transport (vol. flash EB #312): European commisson 2011
24. A.C. Gielen, A. Joffe, A.L. Dannenberg, M.E. Wilson, P.L. Beilenson, and M. DeBoer Psychosocial factors associated with the use of bicycle helmets among children in counties with and without helmet use laws The Journal of Pediatrics 124 2 1994 204 210 (Pubitemid 24057784)
25. M. Karkhaneh, B.H. Rowe, L.D. Saunders, D.C. Voaklander, and B.E. Hagel Trends in head injuries associated with mandatory bicycle helmet legislation targeting children and adolescents Accident Analysis and Prevention 59 2013 206 212
26. J.A. Langlois, W. Rutland-Brown, and M.M. Wald The epidemiology and impact of traumatic brain injury: A brief overview The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 21 5 2006 375 378 (Pubitemid 44413110)
27. J. Larsson Cykelhjälmsanvändning i Sverige 1988-2011: Resultat från VTI:s observationsstudie Bicycle helmet use in Sweden 1998-2011: Results from VTI's observational study Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut Vol. 22 2012
28. J.F. Ludvigsson, E. Andersson, A. Ekbom, M. Feychting, J.L. Kim, and C. Reuterwall et al. External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register BMC Public Health 11 2011
29. A. Macpherson, and A. Spinks Bicycle helmet legislation for the uptake of helmet use and prevention of head injuries Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3 2008 10.1002/14651858.CD005401.pub3
30. S. Nolén, R. Ekman, and K. Lindqvist Bicycle helmet use in Sweden during the 1990s and in the future Health Promotion International 20 1 2005 33 40 (Pubitemid 40363692)
31. R. Ospina, and S.L. Ferrari A general class of zero-or-one inflated beta regression models Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 56 6 2012 1609 1623
32. R Core Team R: A language and environment for statistical computing (vol. 3.0.2) 2013 R Foundation for Statistical Computing Wien
33. R.A. Rigby, and D.M. Stasinopoulos Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C: Applied Statistics 54 3 2005 507 554 (Pubitemid 40659551)
34. R.A. Rigby, and D.M. Stasinopoulos Automatic smoothing parameter selection in GAMLSS with an application to centile estimation Statistical Methods in Medical Research 23 4 2013 318 332
35. D.L. Robinson Head injuries and bicycle helmet laws Accident Analysis and Prevention 28 4 1996 463 475 (Pubitemid 126346848)
36. D.L. Robinson No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets British Medical Journal 332 7543 2006 722 725 (Pubitemid 44365695)
37. D.L. Robinson Bicycle helmet legislation: Can we reach a consensus? Accident Analysis and Prevention 39 1 2007 86 93 (Pubitemid 44740243)
38. J. Schyllander, and R. Ekman Skadade cyklister - En studie av skadeutvecklingen över tid Injured cyclists - A study of injury trends over time 2013
39. P. Scuffham, J. Alsop, C. Cryer, and J.D. Langley Head injuries to bicyclists and the New Zealand bicycle helmet law Accident Analysis and Prevention 32 4 2000 565 573
40. A.M. Stolwijk, H. Straatman, and G.A. Zielhuis Studying seasonality by using sine and cosine functions in regression analysis Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 53 4 1999 235 238 (Pubitemid 29137686)
41. Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis RES 2005-2006 - The national travel survey (vol. 19) 2007
42. D.C. Thompson, F.P. Rivara, and R. Thompson Helmets for preventing head and facial injuries in bicyclists Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online: Update software) 2 2000
43. A.K. Wagner, S.B. Soumerai, F. Zhang, and D. Ross-Degnan Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics 27 4 2002 299 309 10.1046/j.1365-2710.2002.00430.x (Pubitemid 34989269)
44. S.R. Walter, J. Olivier, T. Churches, and R. Grzebieta The impact of compulsory cycle helmet legislation on cyclist head injuries in New South Wales, Australia Accident Analysis and Prevention 43 6 2011 2064 2071