Trial reportInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention1998
Evaluation of a bicycle skills training program for young children: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Validity and Reliability of Field-Based Measures for Assessing Movement Skill Competency in Lifelong Physical Activities: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Pooled it
- Non-legislative interventions for the promotion of cycle helmet wearing by children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Updating the evidence. A systematic review of what works in preventing childhood unintentional injuries: part 1.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2001Pooled it
- An Intervention to Reduce Bicycle Injuries among Middle School Students in Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Trial
- Cycle helmet ownership and use; a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary school children in deprived areas.Archives of disease in childhood · 2004Trial
- Safer cycling in older age (SiFAr): a protocol of a randomized controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a skills training program in improving safe cycling behavior, knowledge, and attitudes in young children.
methodsGrade 4 children from six elementary schools in East York (a borough of Metropolitan Toronto) participated. The intervention--playground based instruction on bicycle handling skills by certified instructors--was randomly allocated to three schools. Altogether 141 children participated: 73 in the intervention group and 68 in the control group, with follow up evaluations available on 117 (83%). The primary outcome was safe cycling behavior (straight line riding, coming to a complete stop, and shoulder checking before a left turn). A self report questionnaire collected data on knowledge and attitudes. Baseline assessments were made in June, with follow up evaluations in September, 1995.
resultsThe prevalence of safe cycling behaviors at follow up in the intervention and control groups respectively, were: straight line riding (90% v 88%; p = 0.782), coming to a complete stop (90% v 76%; p = 0.225), and shoulder checking (0% v 2%; p = 1.000). Over time (from baseline to follow up) children in both groups were more likely to maintain straight line riding, less likely to ride on the sidewalk, and less likely to consider that a car had more right to the road.
conclusionsThis brief skills training program was not effective in improving safe cycling behavior, knowledge, or attitudes among grade 4 children.
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