Trial reportJournal of epidemiology and community health2004
Putting public health evidence into practice: increasing the prevalence of working smoke alarms in disadvantaged inner city housing.
Trial report in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 127 citations in OpenAlex.
- Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2011Pooled it
- Modification of the home environment for the reduction of injuries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- It might work in Oklahoma but will it work in Oakhampton? Context and implementation in the effectiveness literature on domestic smoke detectors.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2005Pooled it
- Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Using quantitative and qualitative data in health services research - what happens when mixed method findings conflict? [ISRCTN61522618].BMC health services research · 2006Trial
- Implementation fidelity of the 'Stay One Step Ahead' home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2023Article
- Implications of a complexity perspective for systematic reviews and guideline development in health decision making.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- What works in practice: user and provider perspectives on the acceptability, affordability, implementation, and impact of a family-based intervention for child overweight and obesity delivered at scale.BMC public health · 2014Article
- Fire and scald burn risks in urban communities: who is at risk and what do they believe about home safety?Health education research · 2013Article
- Pediatric fire deaths in Ontario: retrospective study of behavioural, social, and environmental risk factors.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2011Article
- How has research in the past 5 years changed my practice?Archives of disease in childhood · 2007Review
- Evidence into practice: combining the art and science of injury prevention.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2006Article
- Road safety campaigns: do they work?Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2005Article
- Methods for exploring implementation variation and local context within a cluster randomised community intervention trial.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2004Review
- The Difficulty of Prevention: A Behavioral Perspective.American journal of lifestyle medicineReview
- Fire-related deaths among Aboriginal people in British Columbia, 1991-2001.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
STUDY
objectivesThe UK government recommends that local authorities install battery operated smoke alarms to prevent fire related injury. However, a randomised controlled trial of smoke alarm installation in local authority housing found a low level of working alarms at follow up. Qualitative work, which accompanied the trial explored barriers and levers to the use of this public health intervention.
designSemi-structured group and individual interviews were conducted with a sample of the adult participants in a randomised controlled trial of free smoke alarm installation. Group interviews and "draw and write" exercises were conducted with children at a local primary school.
participantsA sample of trial participants and primary school children in the trial neighbourhood.
settingAn inner city housing estate in central London. MAIN
resultsThe main barrier to smoke alarm use was the distress caused by false alarms. Although trial participants considered themselves to be at high risk for fires and would recommend smoke alarms to others, respondents' reports on the distress caused by false alarms suggest that people balance immediate and longer term risks to their health and wellbeing when they disable alarms.
conclusionsThis study identified some of the reasons for the low level of functioning smoke alarms, and problems experienced with alarms. The results have implications for the implementation of this public health intervention. The effectiveness of smoke alarm installation could be improved if alarm manufacturers and those responsible for implementation programmes considered ways of tackling the issues raised in this study.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.