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Influence of State-Level Emergency Planning Policy Requirements on Secondary School Adoption
Samantha E Scarneo-Miller1, Zachary Y Kerr2, William M Adams3
1Department of Kinesiology, Korey Stringer Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Context:
Emergency action plans (EAPs) are a critical component in the management of catastrophic sport-related injury. Some state high school athletics associations and state legislation have required that schools develop EAPs, but little research exists on the influence of a statewide policy requirement on local adoption of these policies.
Objective:
To examine the efficacy of a statewide policy requirement on local adoption of an EAP.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Online questionnaire.
Patients Or Other Participants:
Secondary school athletic trainers were invited to complete a survey (n = 9642); 1136 completed the survey, yielding an 11.7% response rate.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Survey responses on the adoption of EAPs along with cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator (CPR/AED) requirements were cross-referenced with published statewide policies to determine the prevalence of EAP adoption. We evaluated the adoption of emergency action plan components based on the National Athletic Trainers' Association's emergency planning position statement along with CPR/AED requirements to determine component-specific prevalence. We compared the prevalence of EAP and component adoption between states that required EAPs and specific components of EAPs and states without such requirements.
Results:
Athletic trainers in states that required adoption of an EAP reported including more components of the emergency planning position statement (mean = 8 ± 4, median = 9) than in states without a requirement (mean = 7 ± 4, median = 8). The adoption of EAP components did not differ between states that required specific components of the EAP versus development of the EAP only. However, schools in states with both EAP and CPR/AED training requirements reported higher rates of CPR/AED training implementation (95.5%) than states that only required CPR/AED training (81.6%, prevalence ratio = 1.10, 95% confidence interval = 1.01, 1.20).
Conclusions:
Based on these data, statewide policy requirements for the development of an EAP may be associated with increasing adoption of EAPs.
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