This is the current release of the guideline.

The National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Panel highlights the following findings and recommendations:

• Violence affects all of us at some level and represents an issue of vital national and international importance.
• Some interventions have been shown by rigorous research to reduce violence precursors, violence, and arrest. However, many interventions aimed at reducing violence have not been sufficiently evaluated or proven effective, and a few widely implemented programs have been shown to be ineffective and perhaps harmful.
• Programs that seek to prevent violence through fear and tough treatment appear ineffective. Intensive programs that aim at developing skills and competencies can work.
• Interventions to reduce violence may be context dependent. Research must proceed in varying contexts and take account of local culture.
• Attention to diversity among investigators involved in violence prevention research is important. Universities and funding agencies should make improving the situation a priority.
• The panel encourages funding sufficient to promote the dissemination of violence prevention programs that have been shown to be effective through rigorous randomized controlled trial (RCT) research. Funding must include support for research, and monitoring must continue as these programs are more widely implemented.

None provided

The type of supporting evidence is not specifically stated for each recommendation.

Not applicable: The guideline was not adapted from another source.

2004 Oct 13-15

National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the-Science Panel - Independent Expert Panel

United States Government

National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Panel

Panel Members: Robert L. Johnson, M.D., (Panel and Conference, Chairperson), Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Ph.D., Professor, Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics and Injury, Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Michael F. Cataldo, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Biology, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine , Director, Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; J. Virgil Costley, Jr., J.D., Juvenile Court Judge (Retired), Professor of Paralegal Studies and Criminal Justice, Dekalb Technical College, Covington Campus, Covington, Georgia; Angela Diaz, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York; Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Richard O. Lempert, Ph.D., J.D., Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Michigan, Director, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia; Angela Barron McBride, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Distinguished Professor Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana; Lisa Schwartz, M.D., M.S., Senior Research Associate Veterans Affairs Outcome Group, Associate Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School Hanover, New Hampshire, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont; Freya L. Sonenstein, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Bonita Stanton, M.D., Schotanus Professor and Chair; Carman and Ann Adams, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan; David T. Takeuchi, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work and Department of Sociology; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Steven Woloshin, M.D., M.S., Senior Research Associate Veterans Affairs, Outcomes Group, Associate Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont

All of the panelists who participated in this conference and contributed to the writing of this statement were identified as having no financial or scientific conflict of interest, and all signed forms attesting to this fact. Unlike the expert speakers who present scientific data at the conference, the individuals invited to participate on National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus and State-of-the-Science panels are reviewed prior to selection to assure that they are not proponents of an advocacy position with regard to the topic and are not identified with research that could be used to answer the conference questions.

This is the current release of the guideline.

None available

This summary was completed by ECRI on December 15, 2008.

No copyright restrictions apply.