Center for Injury Research and Policy

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DAWN COMSTOCK, PhD
Principal Investigator
Center for Injury Research and Policy
The Research Institute
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University
College of Medicine
700 Children’s Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
(614) 722-2400
(614) 722-2448 Fax
 
My research interests include the epidemiology of sports, recreation and leisure activity-related injuries among children and adolescents as well as the life-long health benefits associated with an active childhood. To combat the epidemic of obesity in our country, children must be encouraged to get up off the couch and participate in physically active sports, recreation and leisure activities. However, a certain endemic level of injury can be expected in any physical activity. The challenge is to investigate the etiology of preventable injuries; to develop, implement and evaluate protective interventions; and to responsibly report epidemiologic findings of injury research while promoting a physically active lifestyle for children and adolescents.

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Emergency Department Brief Intervention to Increase Carbon Monoxide Detector Use The goal of this research is to determine whether a brief intervention, Project Carbon Monoxide Detector Education (Project CODE), will increase CO detector use.
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Healthy Camp Study The Healthy Camp Study: An Illness and Injury Surveillance Project monitors illness and injury among campers and staff at US summer camps and identifies risk and protective factors associated with such adverse events.
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RIO™ Developed by Dr. R. Dawn Comstock in 2004, the RIO™ (Reporting Information Online) surveillance system is an easily navigated online data collection tool that receives front line data in real time from study reporters (certified athletic trainers, coaches, nurses, etc.) nationwide. The program is highly versatile as it can be tailored to collect high quality injury and illness data from a variety of activities.
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The National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study The National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study is currently the only nationally representative study of US high school sports-related injuries.
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