Effects of Improved Access to Safety Counseling, Products, and Home Visits on Parents' Safety Practices

Abstract

Home visiting was not effective in improving parents' safety practices. Counseling coupled with convenient access to reduced-cost products appears to be an effective strategy for promoting children's home safety.

Domestic unintentional injury of 1 to 5-year-old children in a rural area of West Bengal, India: a community-based study

“…Stove within the reach of the child was also comparable with the findings of a study done at coastal Karnataka, India (Khan et al, 2013). The association between lower levels of parental education with risk of injury in a child is well established (Gielen et al, 2002), but this association was not found in this study.…”

Enhancing Fire Department Home Visiting Programs

“…Previously reported smoke alarm distribution programs have used various combinations of community volunteers, paid staff, and fire personnel with mixed results 13,14,21,22 Our study is most similar to the earlier work by Schwarz et al, 13 who hired community liaisons to engage community members at the block level in advance of having safety inspectors go door-to-door. Like Schwarz’s work, we too found that advance notice provided by a recognized community representative resulted in increased access to homes.…”

Home injury risks to young children in Karachi, Pakistan: a pilot study

“…We identified risks for falls, drowning, burns and poisoning; these findings in our study are similar to the ones reported from families with young children in other LMICs14 as well as HICs 15 17 20–22. Our study shows that 34% of the households had chemicals that were kept locked up, which is comparable to a study from the USA, where this percentage is said to be between 26% and 32% 20. However, another study from the USA showed that in 4.3% of the households not all the chemicals were locked up,23 which is in contrast with our finding.…”