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| DAVID SCHWEBELSummaryAffiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Country: USA Publications
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Dog bite risk: an assessment of child temperament and child-dog interactionsAaron L Davis
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 9:3002-13. 2012..Implications for dog bite intervention programs include targeting at-risk children and merging child- and parent-oriented interventions with existing programs geared toward the physical environment and the dog...
The role of child and adolescent development in the occurrence of agricultural injuries: an illustration using tractor-related injuriesDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Agromedicine 17:214-24. 2012..The authors conclude with a discussion of the implications of developmental aspects of pediatric agricultural injury for behaviorally oriented intervention strategies, including public policy...- Marital conflict and fifth-graders' risk for injuryDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Accid Anal Prev 47:30-5. 2012..We hypothesized marital conflict would be related to increased youth injury risk after controlling for relevant demographic and parenting covariates... - The Blue Dog: evaluation of an interactive software program to teach young children how to interact safely with dogsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 37:272-81. 2012..Pre-post-randomized design evaluated The Blue Dog, a dog safety software program... - Distraction and pedestrian safety: how talking on the phone, texting, and listening to music impact crossing the streetDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Accid Anal Prev 45:266-71. 2012..Policymakers might consider ways to protect distracted pedestrians from harm and to reduce the number of individuals crossing streets while distracted... - Attentional control, high intensity pleasure, and risky pedestrian behavior in college studentsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States
Accid Anal Prev 41:658-61. 2009..Theoretical and applied implications are discussed... - Brief report: unintentional injury risk among children with sensory impairmentsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 35:45-50. 2010..Pediatric injuries result from a multifaceted process involving a range of individual, interpersonal, and environmental influences. One risk that remains poorly understood is the role of children's perception and perceptual disabilities... - Do visually salient stimuli reduce children's risky decisions?David C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Clin Psychol Med Settings 16:223-32. 2009..In other words, visual salience increased decision-making time but not accuracy of judgment. These findings held true after controlling for demographic and temperament characteristics... - The influence of carrying a backpack on college student pedestrian safetyDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Accid Anal Prev 41:352-6. 2009..Implications for pedestrian safety and future research are discussed... - Physical environment of the home and adolescent injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States
Int Emerg Nurs 17:47-51. 2009..This study was designed to offer descriptive data on aspects of the home physical environment that might contribute to adolescent injury risk in the United States... - Validation of virtual reality as a tool to understand and prevent child pedestrian injuryDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Accid Anal Prev 40:1394-400. 2008..We discuss issues of generalizability to other virtual environments, and the implications for application of virtual reality to understanding and preventing pediatric pedestrian injuries... - Language acculturation and pediatric injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 11:168-73. 2009..Possible interpretations of the results are discussed... - An intervention to reduce kerosene-related burns and poisonings in low-income South African communitiesDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Health Psychol 28:493-500. 2009..The intervention was theory-driven, pragmatically motivated, and culturally sensitive... - Injury risk in children with asthmaDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Asthma 46:560-3. 2009..Injury is the most common acute medical condition and also the leading cause of mortality. Previous research examining possible links between pediatric asthma and injury is inconclusive... - Paraffin-related injury in low-income South African communities: knowledge, practice and perceived riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America
Bull World Health Organ 87:700-6. 2009..Also, to explore interrelations between these factors and age, sex, education and income... - How do mothers and fathers influence pediatric injury risk in middle childhood?David C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 35:806-13. 2010..We implemented a prospective research design to study how parenting style, parent-child relationships, and parental mental health influence injury during middle childhood. We also considered the roles of parent and child gender... - Using virtual reality to train children in safe street-crossing skillsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Inj Prev 16:e1-5. 2010..Three pedestrian safety measures will serve as primary outcomes: temporal gap before initiating crossing, temporal gap remaining after crossing and attention to traffic while waiting to cross... - Unintentional injury among low-income 5-year-olds with chronic health conditionsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
Chronic Illn 7:201-8. 2011..We examined injury risk among 5-year-olds with and without chronic health conditions... - The association of activity level, parent mental distress, and parental involvement and monitoring with unintentional injury risk in fifth gradersDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294, United States
Accid Anal Prev 43:848-52. 2011..Extend findings with young children by examining the strength of association of activity level, parent mental distress, and parental involvement and monitoring with fifth graders' unintentional injuries... - Preventing paraffin-related injuryDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Inj Violence Res 1:3-5. 2009..We review successful prevention strategies in each of these domains and discuss appropriate research and community initiatives that should be implemented to improve paraffin safety among at-risk populations. .. - Lifeguards: a forgotten aspect of drowning preventionDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Inj Violence Res 2:1-3. 2010.... - Association of externalizing behavior disorder symptoms and injury among fifth gradersDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
Acad Pediatr 11:427-31. 2011.... - Chronic maternal depression and children's injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 33:1108-16. 2008..One understudied consequence of maternal depression is how it affects toddlers' injury risk. This study examined links between chronic maternal depression and child injury... - Individual difference factors in risky driving among older adultsDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham AL 35294, USA
J Safety Res 38:501-9. 2007..Among younger adults, one behavioral factor consistently linked to risky driving is personality, but this predictor has been overshadowed by research on cognitive, perceptual, and motor processes among older drivers... 
Unintentional injury in preschool boys with and without early onset of disruptive behaviorDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 27:727-37. 2002....- Individual difference factors in risky driving: the roles of anger/hostility, conscientiousness, and sensation-seekingDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, 35294, USA
Accid Anal Prev 38:801-10. 2006..Results are discussed with respect to previous work in the field, challenges involved in measuring the constructs of interest, and implications to prevention... - Does time spent in child care influence risk for unintentional injury?David C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:184-93. 2006..To investigate the effect of quantity and quality of early child care on children's risk for unintentional injury... - The Stamp-in-Safety program: a behavioral intervention to reduce behaviors that can lead to unintentional playground injury in a preschool settingDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:152-62. 2006..To introduce and evaluate the Stamp-in-Safety program, a behavioral intervention designed to increase the quality of supervision by teachers on preschool playgrounds and to reduce the risk of unintentional child playground injury... - Contributions of multiple risk factors to child injuryDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 30:553-61. 2005.... - Injury risk among children of low-income U.S.-born and immigrant mothersDavid C Schwebel
Department of PsychologyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Health Psychol 24:501-7. 2005..The need for further research on the topic and implications of results for injury prevention are discussed... - The role of impulsivity in children's estimation of physical ability: implications for children's unintentional injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 74:584-8. 2004..Possible explanations for the null finding are offered, and implications to injury prevention and future research are discussed... - Interactions between child behavior patterns and parenting: implications for children's unintentional injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 29:93-104. 2004..Along with hypotheses to replicate previous univariate effects, it was hypothesized that active, involved parents with sufficient time resources might reduce injury risk among temperamentally at-risk children... - The role of fathers in toddlers' unintentional injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 29:19-28. 2004..The role of fathers in protecting children from unintentional injury was considered... - The role of parents and temperament on children's estimation of physical ability: links to unintentional injury preventionDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 28:505-16. 2003..The role of three critical variables--parental supervision, children's temperament, and estimation of children's physical abilities--was examined... - Is there a link between children's motor abilities and unintentional injuries?David C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
J Safety Res 34:135-41. 2003..The common view is that clumsy children experience unintentional injury more frequently. Empirical evidence supporting this position is mixed... - Using an injury diary to describe the ecology of children's daily injuriesDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, 415 CH, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Safety Res 33:301-19. 2002..First, are daily injury diaries an effective means to gather information about children's unintentional injuries? Second, what are the circumstances of children's injuries as recorded through the diary method?.. - How mothers parent their children with behavior disorders: implications for unintentional injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, 35294, USA
J Safety Res 37:167-73. 2006..This study was designed to test the role of parental supervision in explaining why children with behavior disorders have increased risk of unintentional injury... - Ecology of player-to-player contact in boys' youth soccer playDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Safety Res 37:507-10. 2006..Youth soccer (football) injuries occur for a wide range of reasons, but the most frequent cause of injury is via player-to-player contact. This study was designed to study the ecology of collisions between players during youth soccer play... - Nocturnal awakenings and pediatric injury riskDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 33:323-32. 2008..This study was designed to examine relations between nocturnal awakenings and unintentional injury risk among toddlers... - Brief report: a brief intervention to improve lifeguard surveillance at a public swimming poolDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:862-8. 2007..This study tested the efficacy of a brief intervention to improve lifeguard attention and surveillance at a public swimming pool... - Pediatric unintentional injury: behavioral risk factors and implications for preventionDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 28:245-54. 2007.... - Brief report: Behavioral risk factors for youth soccer (football) injuryDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:411-6. 2007..By most reports, soccer (football) is among the most played and most popular sports in the world. This study prospectively examined behavioral risk factors for youth soccer injury... - Ecology of drowning risk at a public swimming poolDavid C Schwebel
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham AL 35294, USA
J Safety Res 38:367-72. 2007..The fourth-leading cause of death in middle childhood is drowning, but there is remarkably little known about swimmer or lifeguard behavior patterns at public swimming pools... - The roles of age, gender, inhibitory control, and parental supervision in children's pedestrian safetyBenjamin K Barton
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:517-26. 2007..We examined the roles of children's individual differences (age, gender, and inhibitory control) and parental supervision in children's pedestrian behaviors... - Brief report: Increasing children's safe pedestrian behaviors through simple skills trainingBenjamin K Barton
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:475-80. 2007..Hundreds of American children are killed and thousands more injured annually as pedestrians. Simple and effective interventions targeting behavioral changes in children are needed... - The influences of demographics and individual differences on children's selection of risky pedestrian routesBenjamin K Barton
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:343-53. 2007..The present study considered the roles of age, gender, ethnicity, family income, and inhibitory control on children's selection of safe pedestrian routes... - Configural approaches to temperament assessment: implications for predicting risk of unintentional injury in childrenJack W Berry
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 2041, USA
J Pers 77:1381-409. 2009..In the dimensional interaction analyses, an interaction between surgency/extraversion and negative affect tended to predict injury, especially when children lacked capacity for effortful control... - Personality and injury risk among professional hockey playersZachary H Osborn
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Inj Violence Res 1:15-9. 2009.... - Recognition of home injury risks by novice parents of toddlersJoanna Gaines
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Accid Anal Prev 41:1070-4. 2009..This study examined these characteristics among novice parents of toddlers by investigating how well parents recognize hazards in the home and whether they believe their toddlers are vulnerable to those hazards... - Effect of cell phone distraction on pediatric pedestrian injury riskDespina Stavrinos
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Blvd, CH 415, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Pediatrics 123:e179-85. 2009..This study was designed to examine the influence of talking on a cell phone for pediatric pedestrian injury risk... - Correspondence letter in response to Kincl et al manuscriptDavid C Schwebel
J Adolesc Health 40:99; author reply 99-100. 2007 - Self-immolation in IranAlireza Ahmadi
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran
J Burn Care Res 29:451-60. 2008..Various intervention options are discussed to increase coping skills on the individual and community levels. During the long-term, programs and strategies should focus on "macrosocial-based" interventions...
Research Grants
- Using Virtual Reality to Train Children in Pedestrian SafetyDAVID SCHWEBEL; Fiscal Year: 2009..This project will study the efficacy of virtual reality as a means to train children in safe pedestrian behavior. Results will have significant implications for child pedestrian injury prevention. ..
- Using Virtual Reality to Train Children in Pedestrian SafetyDavid C Schwebel; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project will study the efficacy of virtual reality as a means to train children in safe pedestrian behavior. Results will have significant implications for child pedestrian injury prevention. ..
- Using Virtual Reality to Train Children in Pedestrian SafetyDAVID SCHWEBEL; Fiscal Year: 2009..This project will study the efficacy of virtual reality as a means to train children in safe pedestrian behavior. Results will have significant implications for child pedestrian injury prevention. ..
- Using Virtual Reality to Train Children in Pedestrian SafetyDavid C Schwebel; Fiscal Year: 2010..This project will study the efficacy of virtual reality as a means to train children in safe pedestrian behavior. Results will have significant implications for child pedestrian injury prevention. ..