Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in children in America. Most injuries can be prevented when parents implement effective child safety practices. This project will create a behaviorally based program to teach parents what to do to prevent injuries to their school aged child, in an effort to reduce the number of injuries, hospitalizations, medical costs, and missed work days.
This project will produce a comprehensive, interactive multimedia (IMM) program to teach childhood injury prevention skills to parents of children 6 through 11 years of age. This is one of a four-part series of funded programs to address injury prevention issues for three age groups of children (birth through 24 months, 2-5 years of age and 6-11 years of age). The program will be created in three formats: Internet/intranet, CD-ROM, and linear video (DVD) suitable for use in homes, worksites, medical settings, service agencies, and health information Web sites. On-screen narrators will guide the user through program material comprised of short video presentations, modeling vignettes demonstrating desired behaviors, supportive testimonials, and suggestions for modifications to home and recreational environments.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
175
Print materials of injury prevention content.
Theoretically based school-aged childhood injury prevention videos for families
Oregon Center for Applied Science
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Behavioral measure: identification of correct/incorrect car booster safety seat, seat belt, and bicycle helmet placement
Parents viewed 2 car seat installations and were asked whether 7 car booster safety seat situations (e.g., age of the child for the seat) and 7 seat belt installations (e.g., placement of the seat belt) were correct or incorrect. Parents also viewed a bicycle helmet on a dummy and were asked to identify whether 2 helmet situations were correct or incorrect.
Time frame: Immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Knowledge of injury prevention strategies
An injury prevention knowledge scale was created across all content areas. The injury prevention knowledge scale contained 39 items (e.g., "To prevent scald injuries, hot water heaters should be set to …") for all age groups. The injury prevention knowledge scale represented the percent of items correctly endorsed.
Time frame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Attitudes and beliefs about injury prevention strategies
An injury prevention attitudes \& beliefs scale was created across all content areas (e.g., "A family emergency plan is extremely important strategy to keep your family safe in case of a fire."). Twenty-five items assessed attitudes \& beliefs for the 6-9 year age group and 24-items the 10-11 age group (alpha = .81 for both younger and older children). All items were assessed using a 5-point Likert scale with 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree.
Time frame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Self-efficacy for engaging in injury prevention strategies
An injury prevention self-efficacy scale was created from 29 items across all content areas for all age groups (e.g., "How confident are you that you know how to test the temperature of your water heater?") (alpha = .91 for all age groups) All items were assessed using a 5-point Likert scale with 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree.
Time frame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
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