Trial reportInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2007
"Risk Watch": cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating an injury prevention program.
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- Characteristics and practices of school-based cluster randomised controlled trials for improving health outcomes in pupils in the United Kingdom: a methodological systematic review.BMC medical research methodology · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of home fire safety interventions. A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- School-based education programmes for the prevention of unintentional injuries in children and young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Preventing childhood scalds within the home: Overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies.Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries · 2015Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral interventions to improve child pedestrian safety.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2014Pooled it
- Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Preventing unintentional injuries to children under 15 years in the outdoors: a systematic review of the effectiveness of educational programs.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2012Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2001Pooled it
- Effectiveness of School-Based Interventions in Reducing Unintentional Childhood Injuries: A Cluster Randomized Trial.Indian pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Improving Preschoolers' Fire Injury Prevention Using the Health Action Model.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Manu: His hands, his friends! An educational short movie to prevent children's hand injuries.Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Educational technologies for accident prevention due to falls in childhood: a scoping review.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2023Article
- A Proactive Protection of Smart Power Grids against Cyberattacks on Service Data Transfer Protocols by Computational Intelligence Methods.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Review of school fires in Iran: the causes, consequences and lessons learned.Annals of burns and fire disasters · 2020Article
- Increasing awareness of food-choking and nutrition in children through education of caregivers: the CHOP community intervention trial study protocol.BMC public health · 2019Observational
- Effect of a multi-level education intervention model on knowledge and attitudes of accidental injuries in rural children in Zunyi, Southwest China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveto evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based injury prevention program.
designCluster randomised controlled trial.
setting20 primary schools in Nottingham, UK.
participants459 children aged 7 to 10 years.
interventionThe "Risk Watch" program delivered by teachers, aimed at improving bike and pedestrian, falls, poisoning and fire and burns safety.
main outcome measuresSafety knowledge, observed safety skills and self-reported safety behaviour.
resultsAt follow-up, intervention group children correctly answered more fire and burn prevention knowledge questions than control group children (difference between means 7.0% (95% CI 1.5% to 12.6%)). Children in intervention group schools were more likely to know the correct actions to take if clothes catch fire and the correct way to wear a cycle helmet (difference between school means 35.3% (95% CI 22.7% to 47.9%) and 6.3% (95% CI 1.4% to 11.1%) respectively). They were also more likely to know the correct actions to take in a house fire and on finding tablets (OR 2.80 (95% CI 1.08 to 7.22) and OR 3.50 (95% CI 1.18 to 10.38) respectively) and correctly demonstrated more safety skills than control group children (difference between means 11.9% (95% CI 1.4% to 22.5%)). There was little evidence to suggest the first year of the program impacted on self-reported safety behaviours.
conclusionsThe Risk Watch program delivered by teachers in primary schools increased some aspects of children's safety knowledge and skills and primary schools should consider delivering this program. Longer term, larger scale evaluations are required to examine retention of knowledge and skills and impact on safety behaviours and child injury rates.
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