Corinne Peek-Asa

• University of Iowa

Objective: Campus sexual misconduct causes adverse physical, mental, behavioral, reproductive, and financial consequences. Informing prevention efforts at federal, state, and institution levels requires valid data. We assessed the appropriateness of Clery Act Campus Crime Statistics data for evaluating campus sexual misconduct. Participants: We sam...

Aim To investigate an association between eye injury and later academic and social performance. Methods A retrospective longitudinal study of taking measurements multiple times was conducted including all severe eye injuries admitted during 2011-2017 at the main regional clinic to investigate changes in academic success and social inclusion befor...

Background Teen drivers with a traffic violation are at increased risk for crashes and crash-related injuries; however, most parent-focused interventions target teen drivers with supervised learner’s permits. Very few interventions are implemented at the probationary driver's license stage or target high-risk teen drivers, such as those with traffi...

Aim : The aims of this study were to evaluate the demographics and crash profiles of road traffic-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients treated at two emergency departments in the Republic of Moldova, and to identify areas for prevention. Materials and methods : A prospective study was conducted using data from the medical records of a pilo...

Maxillofacial injuries are a global problem in our modern society. It can be a major cause of increased morbidity and mortality. Maxillofacial trauma can lead to scar distortion accompanied by emotional and psychological problems. The epidemiology of facial fractures varies in terms of trauma type, the extent of injury, and severity. The main aim o...

Objectives: Deterrence of risky driving behavior is important for the prevention of crashes and injuries. Traffic law enforcement is a key strategy used to decrease risky driving, but there is little evidence on the deterrent effect of issuing warnings versus citations to drivers regarding the prevention of future crashes. The purpose of this stud...

Background Motor vehicle crashes among teen drivers often involve passengers in the teen’s vehicle and occupants of other vehicles, and the full cost burden for all individuals is largely unknown. This analysis estimated direct hospitalisation and emergency department charges for teen-involved crashes by teen culpability, comparing charges for the...

Background: Workers under the age of 25 may be at particular risk for workplace violence, given their predominant employment in the high-risk retail and service industries. Little research exists, however, that estimates the scope of the problem within this population. To fill this gap, we conducted the first national study of workplace violence a...

Background Sobriety checkpoints are a highly effective strategy to reduce alcohol-impaired driving, but they are used infrequently in the USA. Recent evidence from observational studies suggests that using optimized sobriety checkpoints—operating for shorter duration with fewer officers—can minimize operational costs without reducing public health...

Rural roads have a higher risk of fatality or serious injury than urban roads due to factors such as varying terrain, wildlife, and long distances between services. BTSCRP Web-Only Document 4: Highway Safety Behavioral Strategies for Rural Areas, from TRB's Behavioral Transportation Safety Cooperative Research Program, documents the overall researc...

Background: Exposure to child maltreatment creates risk for adverse social, health, and economic outcomes across generations. The socioecological model posits the well-being of individuals, including children and youth, is shaped by the larger systems they exist in. Employing state-level policies to position school settings to effectively identify...

Background Violence against healthcare workers is highly prevalent globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new stress to patients and healthcare workers. Research on healthcare violence has identified workplace stress as a solid predictive component, yet little is known about how COVID-related stresses have impacted healthcare violence. Met...

Context Motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death among teenagers. Teen drivers who have committed a traffic violation are at even greater risk. In-vehicle feedback technology helps improve driving behaviors. However, programs using this technology to actively engage parents in promoting safe teen driving practices are scarce. Proces...

Introduction Falls are one of the major public health problems and a leading cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality globally. Around of 80% of fall deaths occur in low- and middle- income countries. Falls are the most common cause of hospitalization among the population aged 65 years and older. According the data from Global Burden of Dise...

Introduction Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant public health issue globally, and the mortality and morbidity burden is particularly high in low- and middle-income counties (LMICs). The WHO predicts a disproportionately large increase of TBI burden in LMICs. The aim of this study was to identify trends in hospitalization associated with...

Child care access shapes parental involvement in the workforce, and inherently families’ economic security. Given the well-supported relationships between family economic stress and child maltreatment, we hypothesize financially accessible child care subsidies will reduce the risk of maltreatment by reducing parental stress and improving families’...

As teen dating violence (TDV) has gained attention as a public health concern across the United States (US), many efforts to mitigate TDV appear as policies in the 50 states in the form of for programming in K-12 schools. A keyword search identified 61 state-level school-based TDV policies. We developed an abstraction form to conduct a content anal...

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a critical public health and socio-economic problem throughout the world, making epidemiological monitoring of incidence, prevalence, and outcome of TBI necessary. TBI is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in adolescents, young adults, and the elderly, one of the leading causes being road traffic a...

Introduction: Motorcycle fatality rates are increasing, and impaired driving is a major contributing factor. Impaired driving laws are a main component of state efforts to reduce drunk driving, but motorcycle crash charge and conviction outcomes have yet to be studied. The purpose of this study was to evaluate driver charge and conviction outcomes...

Objective: The Republic of Moldova has one of the European region's highest road traffic injury rates and also has an increase in motorization and exposure of children as vehicle passengers. This study describes child restraint use, and parents' knowledge and attitudes toward child restraint based on observations in Chisinau, the country's capital...

The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of tabletop scenario exercises in improving threat management teams’ response to workplace violence. Twenty-two threat management teams (TMTs) from a large multinational manufacturing company participated in two tabletop scenario exercises, one of which presented a worker-on-worker bullying case and t...

Purpose: To investigate the association between an eye injury and later academic performance as well as the level of social engagement. Method: A case-crossover study was used to investigate any changes in academic success and social inclusion before and after an injury. Eligibility criteria included all severe injuries admitted during 2011-2017 pe...

This paper presents a comprehensive solution for distance estimation of the following vehicle solely based on visual data from a low-resolution monocular camera. To this end, a pair of vehicles were instrumented with real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS, and the lead vehicle was equipped with custom devices that recorded video of the following vehicle. Fo...

Introduction Injury is a major health problem worldwide and a leading cause of death and disability. Disability caused by traumatic injury is often severe and long-lasting. Injuries place a large burden on societies and individuals in the community, both in cost and lost quality of life. Progress in developing effective injury prevention programs i...

Statement of Purpose Road Traffic injuries (RTI) among children are a growing priority for the country of Georgia. The aim of this study was to explore the epidemiology of RTI that required hospitalization among children aged 0 to 18 from 2015–2020. Methods/Approach This study is part of the NIH-funded project iCREATE: Increasing Capacity in Resea...

Statement of Purpose Advances in technology offer an avenue to objectively record driving data to enhance teens’ safe driving practices. However, research using such technology with high-risk teens, such as those with a traffic citation, is limited. We analyzed the frequency and rate of risky driving events collected via in-vehicle feedback device...

Statement of Purpose Motor vehicle crash risk is highest among teen drivers. The current study sought to examine the contribution of GDL-related licensure restrictions, gender, age, roadway circumstances, and citation history to teen drivers’ crash culpability. Methods/Approach Crash system data from the Iowa Department of Transportation was linke...

Statement of Purpose Parents play a substantial role in driver training, yet few studies have examined these interactions. This study examines parent-teen communication about hazard anticipation in response to virtual environment scenarios. Methods/Approach Participants include teens in the learner phase of licensure and their parent. The study ta...

Statement of Purpose Teen drivers have the highest crash and injury rates among all drivers across the lifespan. These crashes involve passengers and occupants of other vehicles, and the full cost burden for all individuals is largely unknown. This analysis estimates direct medical costs for teen-involved crashes by teen culpability, comparing cost...

Statement of Purpose Extension Educators within Cooperative Extension Offices are a promising partner in extending the reach of injury and violence prevention programs to rural areas, but they have been underutilized for public health efforts. Cooperative Extension is a partnership of the US Department of Agriculture, land-grant universities, and l...

Introduction Rural crashes result in fatality rates twice as high as urban, after accounting for vehicle miles traveled, and those involving farm vehicles tend to be the most severe. Farm vehicle crash interventions have focused on the farm equipment (e.g., lighting and marking) or the farm vehicle operator (e.g., training), despite crashes being m...

Objectives: A comparative effectiveness trial tested 2 parent-based interventions in improving the psychosocial recovery of hospitalized injured children: (1) Link for Injured Kids (Link), a program of psychological first aid in which parents are taught motivational interviewing and stress-screening skills, and (2) Trauma Education, based on an in...

Workplaces are critical in suicide prevention because work-related factors can be associated with suicide, and because workplaces can be effective suicide prevention sites. Understanding the circumstances associated with work-related suicides can advance worksite prevention efforts. Data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

Background Suicide is a leading cause of death for working-age adults. Suicide risk varies across occupations. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects information about violent deaths occurring in the United States. Occupation can be determined using autocoding programs with NVDRS data. The objective of this analysis is to dete...

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered people’s daily lives, including driving. However, how state Divisions of Motor Vehicles (DMV) adapted their operation policies in response to COVID-19 remains unknown. This study analyzed adaptations to the content of state DMV operation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic across 50 US states an...

Introduction: Crash data suggest an association between driver seatbelt use and child passenger restraint. However, community-based restraint use is largely unknown. We examined the association between driver seatbelt use and child restraint using data from a state-wide observational study. Methods: Data from Iowa Child Passenger Restraint Surve...

Purpose Rural public roads experience higher crash fatality rates than other roadways, with agricultural equipment adding greater risk of injury and fatality. This study set out to describe farmers’ experiences with farm equipment crashes and predictors of crashes at the farm level. Methods A survey of farm operators was conducted in 9 Midwestern...

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to evaluate patterns of fall-related injury through childhood and identify risk factors for more severe fall-related injuries with the goal of informing targeted prevention strategies for different ages. Methods: The study population consisted of pediatric patients in the Iowa Trauma Registry from January...

We conducted a secondary analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to examine child abuse and neglect hospitalization from 1998–2016. The NIS is the largest all-payer, inpatient care database in the United States and is maintained by the Health Care Utilization Project. Participants were youth 18 years and younger with discharged diagnoses of...

Highlights This study uses a new tractor driving simulator to examine the impact of age on perception response time in an emergency braking situation. The results demonstrate increased risk for crash among older farm equipment operators. Abstract. Transportation-related incidents are the leading cause of occupational fatalities for all industries...

Objective: To investigate national trends of SBS diagnosis codes and how trends varied among patient and hospital characteristics. Methods: We examined possible SBS, confirmed SBS, and non-SBS abuse diagnosis codes among children age three and younger who were hospitalized for abuse between 1998 and 2014 using a secondary analysis of the Nationa...

Background Low-middle-income countries experience among the highest rates of traumatic brain injury in the world. Much of this burden may be preventable with faster intervention, including reducing the time to definitive care. This study examines the relationship between traumatic brain injury severity and time to definitive care in major trauma ho...

Introduction Both suicides overall and work‐related suicides are increasing in the United States, and efforts to reduce suicide risk will require an understanding of the frequency and role of work in suicides. This study examines the incidence of occupational suicides using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which identified the r...

Statement of purpose We provide thorough description of Teen Dating Violence (TDV) policies’ variation to position future research efforts to understand what is driving policy variation and how policy components impact outcomes. Methods/Approach We developed and applied an abstraction form to measure 7 TDV policy components: (1) definitions, (2) r...

Statement of purpose Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can affect later health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but there is little research to assess clinical characteristics that may improve or hinder HRQoL among TBI patients in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Europe and Asia. This research aims to assess how clinical characteristics of TB...

Statement of purpose Evaluation of community engagement in the development and dissemination of a rural roadway safety campaign. Methods/Approach We implemented ‘We’re On This Road Together,’ a health communication campaign that targeted rural drivers’ interactions with farm vehicles and had three main messages: Slow Down, Leave More Space, and Av...

Statement of purpose The purpose of this research was to build a tractor-driving miniSim, describe its perceived realism, and use it to examine associations between age and tractor-driving performance among farm-equipment operators (FEOs). Methods/Approach FEOs completed a simulated drive and a survey scoring four realism domains (i.e., appearance...

Purpose: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, disproportionally affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Epidemiological characteristics of TBI at a national level are absent for most LMICs including Georgia. This study aimed to establish the registries and assess causes and outco...

Introduction: The aging population has been rapidly growing in the United States (U.S.). In line with this trend, older adults' mobility and transportation safety are an increasing priority. Many states have implemented driver licensure laws specific to older adults to limit driving among the elderly with driving skill decline. Evaluations of thes...

Background: Over 90% of morbidity and mortality associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in low- and middle-income countries. Lack of reliable, high-quality data regarding TBI prevention and care hinders the ability to reduce TBI burden. We sought to identify current TBI data collection practices and capacity in Georgia, focusing on pre...

Background Numerous public health studies, especially in the area of violence, examine the effects of contextual or group-level factors on health outcomes. Often, these contextual factors exhibit strong pairwise correlations, which pose a challenge when these factors are included as covariates in a statistical model. Such models may be characterise...

Introduction: Driver retirement and determination of fitness-to-drive are important aspects of reducing the risk of motor-vehicle collision for an older driver. A lack of information about the review process may lead to poor evaluation of drivers or an increased testing burden to referred drivers. Methods: This paper evaluates the license review...

Cognitive and physical impairment can occur with dementia and reduce driving ability. In the United States, individual states have procedures to refer and evaluate drivers who may no longer be fit to drive. The license review process is not well understood for drivers with dementia. This study uses comprehensive data from the Iowa Department of Tra...

Background The World Health Organization predicts a striking rise in the burden of traumatic brain injury (TBI) burden in the next decades. A disproportionately large increase is predicted in low- and middle-income countries, which have brain injury rates 3 times higher than high-income countries. The aim of this study was to identify current TBI p...

Background: Racial/ethnic disparity has been documented in a wide variety of health outcomes, and environmental components are contributors. For example, food deserts have been tied to obesity rates. Pedestrian injuries are strongly tied to environmental factors, yet no studies have examined racial disparity in pedestrian injury rates. We examine...

Background: Farming is a high risk occupation that predisposes workers to injury, but may also lead to barriers in reaching trauma care. Little is known about emergency and trauma care for patients with farm-related injuries. The purpose of this study was to determine whether severely injured farmers presenting to a statewide trauma system faced d...

There is building evidence that Adverse Childhood Experiences without early and proper intervention leads to subsequent short- and long-term behavioral, social, physical and mental health problems. Practitioners, researchers, and healthcare systems have been implementing trauma-informed care (TIC) in a variety of health and human services settings,...

The purpose of the current study was to identify the existing practices and policies on TBI treatment and rehabilitation in the Republic of Moldova. Methods: Qualitative face-to-face interviews were conducted with health care professionals from two major emergency hospitals in Chisinau Municipality in 2018. An interview guide was modeled accordin...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) disproportionately affects Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), which have higher incidence and poorer outcomes than high-income countries. TBI disproportionately affects the young, who have potential life-long disability from neurological deficits. Gaps in TBI data were identified by the World Health Organization a...

Statement of Purpose Rural public roads experience higher crash rates than other roadways, with agricultural equipment adding greater risk of injury and fatality. This study investigated farm-level factors and their association with farm equipment crashes on public roads, along with circumstances of these crashes. Methods/Approac A 2014 survey of...

Background Approximately 10% of teens report experiencing sexual dating violence (SDV) or physical dating violence (PDV), collectively represented as teen dating violence (TDV). This study examines the association between laws incorporating TDV education in schools on TDV prevalence. Methods TDV prevalence was estimated using data contributed by 3...

Parent-based teen driving interventions have been shown to increase safe teen driving but few have been translated beyond the research setting. As employers focus more on total worker health, the workplace offers a unique opportunity to implement a safe teen driving program into a workplace wellness program. The aim of this study was to adapt the e...

Objective To investigate national trends of SBS diagnosis codes and how trends varied among patient and hospital characteristics. Methods We examined possible and confirmed SBS diagnoses among children age three and younger who were hospitalized for abuse between 1998 and 2014 using a secondary analysis of the National Inpatient Sample, the largest...

Objective To investigate national trends of SBS diagnosis codes and how trends varied among patient and hospital characteristics. Methods We examined possible SBS, confirmed SBS, total SBS, and non-SBS abuse diagnoses among children age three and younger who were hospitalized for abuse between 1998 and 2014 using a secondary analysis of the Nationa...

Background. Racial/ethnic disparity has been documented in a wide variety of health outcomes, and environmental components are contributors. For example, food deserts have been tied to obesity rates. Pedestrian injuries are strongly tied to environmental factors, yet no studies have examined racial disparity in pedestrian injury rates. We examine a...

Purpose: Motor-vehicle crashes continue to be the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States. The United States has some of the youngest legal driving ages worldwide. The objective of this study was to determine rates and factors associated with injury crashes among 14- and 15-year-old drivers and how these varied by rurality. Meth...

Objective: In-hospital falls (IHFs) are a significant burden to the healthcare industry and patients seeking inpatient care. Many falls lead to injuries that could be considered a hospital-acquired condition (HAC). We demonstrated how administrative data can be used to quantify how many IHFs occur and identify what conditions increase the risk for...

Background. Racial/ethnic disparity has been documented in a wide variety of health outcomes, and environmental components are contributors. For example, food deserts have been tied to obesity rates. Pedestrian injuries are strongly tied to environmental factors, yet no studies have examined racial disparity in pedestrian injury rates. We examine a...

Background. Racial/ethnic disparity has been documented in a wide variety of health outcomes, and environmental components are contributors. For example, food deserts have been tied to obesity rates. Pedestrian injuries are strongly tied to environmental factors, yet no studies have examined racial disparity in pedestrian injury rates. We examine a...

Background Racial/ethnic disparity has been documented in a wide variety of health outcomes, and environmental components are contributors. For example, food deserts have been tied to obesity rates. Pedestrian injuries are strongly tied to environmental factors, yet no studies have examined racial disparity in pedestrian injury rates. We examine a...

Background: Use of seat belts and car seats for children are among the most effective interventions to reduce injury severity when a crash occurs. The use should be enforced in order to have an increase in wearing these restraints. Romania has the lowest rate of using seatbelts in the backseat, 16%. The purpose of the study is to describe the use...

Highlights Describes the creation of a new high-fidelity tractor driving simulator. Describes the perceived realism of a tractor driving simulator among 99 Midwestern farm equipment operators. Examines how farm equipment operator characteristics affect perceived realism of a tractor driving simulator. Discusses potential improvements for future gen...

This randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of integrating Steering Teens Safe, a parent communication intervention, with feedback from an in-vehicle video recording system. In-vehicle video systems that trigger a recording when the vehicle exceeds a g-force threshold have been used to provide feedback to young drivers. Few of these progr...

Objectives: Teen drivers are at increased crash risk, largely due to lack of experience. Parents play a key role in influencing teen behaviors and attitudes around driving safety. Parent-involved interventions may improve teen driving safety but tend to be resource intensive and have limited scalability. In this study, we examined how family commun...

Background: Workers' compensation claims data are routinely used to identify and describe work-related injury for public health surveillance and research, yet the proportion of work-related injuries covered by workers' compensation, especially in the agricultural industry, is unknown. Methods: Using data from the Iowa Trauma Registry, we determi...

The primary aim of this study is to determine the relationship between situational factors, method of death, and homicide-suicide deaths, specifically comparing method of death (firearm vs. nonfirearm) across these factors. We used data from the national violence death reporting system, a reporting system for violent deaths that links data from mul...

Background: Cattle are responsible for more injuries and fatalities than any farm animal, and cattle-related nonfatal injuries are some of the costliest, requiring more time off work than other injuries. Though research has improved our understanding of cattle behavior, developed low-stress handling practices, and determined how facilities can be...

Background: The goal of predictive modelling is to identify the likelihood of future events, such as the predictive modelling used in climate science to forecast weather patterns and significant weather occurrences. In public health, increasingly sophisticated predictive models are used to predict health events in patients and to screen high risk...

Background: The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of workplace violence (WPV) victimization in 16 to 24-year olds in the United States and compare rates by occupation and demographics. Methods: As an open cohort, participants 12 years or older in the National Crime Victimization Survey were interviewed at 6-month intervals over a 3-...

Background: Universities are increasingly implementing programs to effectively respond to and manage sport-related concussions (SRCs). One such effort is to develop common data elements (CDEs) and standardize data collection methods. The objectives of this study were to describe CDEs currently collected by Big Ten and Ivy League universities for S...

Background: Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of teen deaths in spite of preventive efforts. Prevention strategies could be advanced through new analytic approaches that allow us to better conceptualize the complex processes underlying teen crash risk. This may help policymakers design appropriate interventions and evaluate their impa...

Objective: To compare implementation of robbery prevention strategies between gas station/convenience stores with liquor stores/grocery stores/pharmacies, restaurants/bars, and other retail businesses. Methods: One hundred forty-nine retail businesses were evaluated by police personnel across four police departments for adherence to robbery prev...

The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in an emergency department (ED) by sexual orientation and gender identification. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of adult patients (n = 1,136) presenting to a Level I Trauma Center ED from November 2015 to November 2016. Multivariable logistic regres...

Despite recent civil rights advances for sexual minority communities in the United States, disparities in violence victimization have increased in recent years. Polyvictimization, the experience of multiple types of violence, is common in the United States and may result in mental and physical health consequences above and beyond single-type victim...

Background Workplace violence is a leading cause of occupational death and injury worldwide, impacting all industries and occupations. Businesses can reduce the burden of violence by implementing comprehensive prevention programs. However, the majority of businesses globally have not implemented these. One successful model uses an interdisciplinary...

Background Motorization growth worldwide is increasing children’s exposure to motor vehicle occupant crash injury. The use of child safety seats and seat belts, as appropriate for a child’s age and development, is one of the most effective ways to reduce child occupant injury in a crash. However, child safety seat use varies throughout the world....

Universities in the United States are increasingly implementing programs to effectively respond to and manage sport-related concussions (SRC). One such effort is to develop common data elements (CDEs) and standardize data collection methods. This study aimed to describe CDEs currently collected by the Big Ten and Ivy League universities for SRCs, a...

Introduction: Classifying risky driving among new teenage drivers is important for efficiently targeting driving interventions. We thoroughly investigated whether novice drivers can be clustered by their driving outcome profiles over time. Methods: A sample of 51 newly licensed teen drivers was recruited and followed over a period of 20 weeks. A...

Objective: To describe the differences in postinjury psychological symptoms among Division I collegiate student athletes who sustained concussions versus orthopedic injures and to examine the effects of injury type on postinjury psychological symptoms during the course of recovery. Design: A prospective cohort study with repeated measures. Sett...

Objective: After the age of 65 the number of motor vehicle crashes per mile driven increases. Traffic-related charges issued by law enforcement can help identify drivers who are at a higher risk of having a crash. This study examines the relationship between motor vehicle crashes and traffic-related charges among older adult drivers. Methods: Iowa...

Background: In the decades since the landmark report-America Burning-was published in 1973, the number of home fire deaths has shrunk from >5500 per year to 2650 in 2015. This paper: (1) describes how science and practice in injury prevention and fire and life safety contributed to successful interventions, and (2) identifies emerging strategies a...

Introduction: Emergency vehicles, such as police, ambulances, and fire vehicles, need to arrive at the scene of emergencies as quickly as possible, and thus they often travel in emergency mode - using their lights and sirens and often bypassing traffic signals. We examined whether travelling in emergency mode increased crash risk among police, amb...