Effects of a Videotape to Increase Use of Poison Control Centers by Low-Income and Spanish-Speaking Families: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Kelly, Nancy; Huffman, Lynne C.; Mendoza, Fernando; Robinson, Thomas N.

doi:10.1542/peds.111.1.21

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“…This suggests that educational efforts should not only aim to enhance the knowledge about PCC among the Hispanic/Latino population, but also to bring about a behavioral change that will increase the likelihood of people from these communities calling the poison center for help. While previous reports demonstrated successful interventions to change health behavior and increase the use of poison control centers by low-income and Spanish-speaking families (Kelly al., 2003), undoubtedly more work is needed in this important area.…”

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Assessment of Barriers to Utilization of Poison Centers by Hispanic/Latino Populations

Vassilev¹,

Shiel²,

Lewis

et al. 2006

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

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Previous research suggests that Spanish-speaking parents and residents of areas with large Hispanic and Latino populations are likely to underutilize the assistance that is available through poison control centers (PCCs). In order to examine any real and perceived barriers to utilization of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System (NJPIES), the only poison control center in the state, an intercept survey was conducted with self-identified Hispanics/Latinos at Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) centers and in nearby grocery stores, bus stops, and public laundromats. Only 38% of the study sample (n = 206) had heard of NJPIES. Common ways to have heard of NJPIES included school or church bulletins, family members, and friends. Twenty-three percent knew the NJPIES's toll-free phone number; 23% knew it was available 24 h per day; and 22% knew that Spanish-speaking personnel were available for assistance. Potential barriers to utilization included not knowing the phone number of the poison center, not speaking English, and not knowing if the poison center could offer any help. Respondent-recommended strategies for increasing awareness of NJPIES among Hispanics/Latinos included advertising on TV, and distributing information through school and church bulletins.

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Assessment of Barriers to Utilization of Poison Centers by Hispanic/Latino Populations

Vassilev¹,

Shiel²,

Lewis

et al. 2006

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

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“…This included five RCTs and one NRCT (Johnston, Huebner, Anderson, Tyll, & Thompson, 2006). The five RCTs (Hendrickson, 2002;Kelly, Huffman, Mendoza, & Robinson, 2003;Phelan et al, 2011;Woolf et al, 1987Woolf et al, , 1992 evaluating safety education, provision of PCC stickers and telephone numbers, and home safety inspections reported effect sizes ranging from OR 2.57, 95% CI 1.48À4.44 (Woolf et al, 1987) to OR 34.00, 95% CI 9.32À23.97 (Hendrickson, 2002). The NRCT evaluated the Healthy Steps child development and behaviour programme which had two intervention groups.…”

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Prevention of childhood poisoning in the home: overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies

Wynn

Zou

Young

et al. 2015

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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Unintentional poisoning is a significant child public health problem. This systematic overview of reviews, supplemented with a systematic review of recently published primary studies synthesizes evidence on non-legislative interventions to reduce childhood poisonings in the home with particular reference to interventions that could be implemented by Children's Centres in England or community health or social care services in other high income countries. Thirteen systematic reviews, two meta-analyses and 47 primary studies were identified. The interventions most commonly comprised education, provision of cupboard/drawer locks, and poison control centre (PCC) number stickers. Metaanalyses and primary studies provided evidence that interventions improved poison prevention practices. Twenty eight per cent of studies reporting safe medicine storage (OR from meta-analysis 1.57, 95% CI 1.22À2.02), 23% reporting safe storage of other products (OR from meta-analysis 1.63, 95% CI 1.22À2.17) and 46% reporting availability of PCC numbers (OR from meta-analysis 3.67, 95% CI 1.84À7.33) demonstrated significant effects favouring the intervention group. There was a lack of evidence that interventions reduced poisoning rates. Parents should be provided with poison prevention education, cupboard/drawer locks and emergency contact numbers to use in the event of a poisoning. Further research is required to determine whether improving poison prevention practices reduces poisoning rates.

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“…Thus, appropriate message language cannot be directly inferred by the literacy or ethnicity of the target audience or its overall acculturation level. Kelly et al (52) studied 249 Mexican American middle-school youth from a U.S.-Mexico border community to examine the effectiveness of language and theme with respect to print tobacco counter advertisements. Although a large proportion of the students identified with the Mexican American culture and spoke Spanish in selected contexts, readability was greater for ads in English, which were rated as more effective.…”

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Elder

Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts in this population. Latinos, collectively the nation's largest minority group, vary substantially in terms of socioeconomic and legal status, their country of origin and the extent of ongoing contact with that country, their region of residence within the United States, their generation status and levels of acculturation, and psychosocial factors. Health communication efforts with Latinos need to focus on family, cultural traditions, and collectivism while attending to acculturation, language, generation and national origin. The most extensive intervention topic in Latino health promotion has been the application of the lay health advisor model. This and other fundamental communication approaches, as well as audience and population characteristics, need to be considered within the context of dynamic and complex societal changes. PART I: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATESMany national health and social science studies, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and other surveys, treat Latinos 1 as though they were a homogenous group. However, as Modiano and colleagues (75) stated,The aggregation of culturally distinct subgroups, which have resided in the United States for different periods of time, into a more inclusive Latino category assumes that all persons of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin have similar needs and experience similar barriers in using health services.There is, however, no clear evidence for this assumption. On the contrary, there is evidence that each group has specific characteristics that make it different and independent from one another. . . . (p. 35) Clearly, extraordinary diversity exists among subgroups of Latinos. The immigration and acculturation experiences of Mexican or Central American-descended Americans, South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans vary substantially from one another. The distinction among Latino subgroups can be traced back to highly varied experiences not only with respect to encounters with the dominant American culture but also extending back to Spanish colonization, which began to redefine the western hemisphere 500 years ago. Indigenous groups in the Caribbean Islands and coastal areas largely succumbed to Iberian diseases and aggression and were replaced by Europeans and African slaves. Although forced to adopt much of the culture and religion of the conquistadores, indigenous groups in central and highland areas of Mexico and further south survived 1 The field offers no consensus regarding the term to refer to persons of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. Both "Hispanic" and "Latino" are used extensively, although U.S. government documents, including the Census, use the term Hispanic. Given this mixed usage in the literature, we use the term Latino to indicate, where po...

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Effects of a Videotape to Increase Use of Poison Control Centers by Low-Income and Spanish-Speaking Families: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Abstract: This videotape intervention was highly effective in changing knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and behavioral intentions concerning the PCC within this population. As a result, use of this video may help increase use of the PCC by low-income and Spanish-speaking families.

Cited by 30 publications

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Assessment of Barriers to Utilization of Poison Centers by Hispanic/Latino Populations

Assessment of Barriers to Utilization of Poison Centers by Hispanic/Latino Populations

Prevention of childhood poisoning in the home: overview of systematic reviews and a systematic review of primary studies

Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

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