Evaluating a smartphone application to improve child passenger safety and fire safety knowledge and behaviour

Omaki, Elise; Shields, Wendy; McDonald, Eileen M.; Aitken, Mary E.; Bishai, David; Case, James; Gielen, Andrea Carlson

doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042161

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“…To support parents and caregivers in using the appropriate CRSs for their child on every ride, interventions and public health campaigns may need be targeted and have clear messages to address those in which parents may be more willing to not fully buckle their child [27,28]. For example, we saw that for the taxi and car sharing service situation, 23.6% and 13.1% of booster seat and car seat users, respectively, agreed or somewhat agreed they would not fully buckle their child.…”

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Situational Use of Child Restraint Systems and Carpooling Behaviors in Parents and Caregivers

McDonald

Kennedy

Fleisher

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Suboptimal compliance with child restraint system (CRS) recommendations can increase risk for injury or death in a motor vehicle crash. The purpose of this study was to examine scenarios associated with incomplete CRS use and non-use in children ages 4–10 years. We used a cross-sectional online survey with a convenience sample of parent/caregivers from the United States, age ≥18 years, with a child age 4–10 years in their home, who could read and spoke English, and drove child ≥6 times in previous three months. We used descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U to describe and compare the distribution of responses to situational use of CRSs among car seat users and booster seat users. We also used descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U to describe and compare the distribution of responses to carpooling items among booster seat users and non-booster seat users. There were significant differences among those who reported most often using booster seats (n = 282) and car seats (n = 127) in situations involving rental cars, driving just around the corner, car too crowded to fit the CRS, not enough CRSs in the vehicle, the CRS is missing from the car, or the child is in someone else’s car without a CRS (p < 0.05). Among those who reported most often using booster seats and who carpooled other children (n = 159), 71.7% (n = 114) always used a booster seat for their own child. When carpooling other children, booster seat users were significantly more likely to use booster seats for other children ages 4–10 than the non-booster seat users (p < 0.01). Continued education and programs surrounding CRS use is critical, particularly for children who should be in booster seats.

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Situational Use of Child Restraint Systems and Carpooling Behaviors in Parents and Caregivers

McDonald

Kennedy

Fleisher

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…For research purposes, devoting more items to measuring a self-reported behavior of interest may increase validity. For educational purposes, tailored messages have been demonstrated to be more effective than generic messages in affecting change (Schmid et al 2008;Kreuter et al 2000;Omaki et al 2017). However, messages that are tailored to a person's reported behaviors are likely to have limited impact when over-reporting occurs.…”

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Improving Smoke Alarm Self-Report Via a Prompted Questionnaire

Shields

Omaki

McDonald

et al. 2020

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Background: Previous work has demonstrated discrepancies between self-reported and observed smoke alarm functionality. This study aimed to improve self-report of smoke alarm status. Methods: Participants were asked if they had: 1) any working smoke alarm; and 2) a working smoke alarm on every level of their home (Brief Form). Subsequently, parents answered an Extended Form prompting them to consider each level and how they knew the smoke alarms were functioning. Results: 554 participants completed both forms. On the Brief Form, 96% of participants reported having any smoke alarm and 92% reported having a working alarm on every level. On the Extended Form, 85% of parents reported having any smoke alarm and 73% reported having a working alarm on every level. Conclusion: Prompting residents to consider the presence and functionality of smoke alarms on each level of their home increased the opportunity to provided tailoired communication to improve smoke alarm coverage.

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“…Their study comprised empirically supported behavior-changing strategies, daily skills, and self-monitoring text messages with personalized feedback, among 18-to 19-year-old mothers [24]. Likewise, using a survey, both Swindle et al and Omaki et al demonstrated that low-income parents of young children had daily usage rates of the internet, texting, and cell phone of greater than 60% [25,26]. Cell phone observation may provide an acceptable alternative to direct observation for other injury prevention mechanisms such as appropriate seatbelt placement, helmet or lifejacket fit, and smoke detector installation.…”

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Field assessment of a safe sleep instrument using smartphone technology

Nabaweesi

Whiteside-Mansell

Mullins

et al. 2019

J. Clin. Trans. Sci.

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Introduction: Sudden unexpected infant death is the leading cause of infant mortality with black: white infant mortality remaining at 2:1 for the last decade. Smartphone technology provides a convenient and accessible tool for injury prevention anticipatory guidance among at-risk communities. Materials and Methods: A convenience sample of pregnant teen mothers who own a smartphone. During a 1-month postnatal home visit, a safe sleep environment survey was administered, infant sleep practices were observed, and mothers trained to take and submit standard infants’ sleep environment photographs. Photographs were independently assessed for inter-rater reliability (IRR) across five sleep safety domains (primary outcome): sleep location, surface, position, presence of soft items, and hazards near the sleep area. Expert and novice coders IRR was measured using Cohen’s kappa coefficient (K). Sleep safety correlation between photographs and observation, and parent report and observation was determined. Results: Sixteen (57.1%) mothers completed the home visit. Most parents reported infants sleeping supine (78.5) in parents’ bedroom (85.9%). Photographs demonstrated sleep position, soft items without the baby present, and hanging toys had perfect agreement across all three coder pairs. Safe sleep experts’ IRR demonstrated perfect agreement for sleep location, position, and soft items. While 83.8% of parents were observed putting their infants down to sleep on their back, 78.5% of parents reported doing the same and 82.4% of the photographs demonstrated supine infant sleep position. Conclusion: Using photographs, coders can reliably categorize some key infant sleep safety aspects, and photograph sleep safety is comparable to parent report and direct observation.

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Evaluating a smartphone application to improve child passenger safety and fire safety knowledge and behaviour

Abstract: NCT02345941; Pre-results.

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Situational Use of Child Restraint Systems and Carpooling Behaviors in Parents and Caregivers

Situational Use of Child Restraint Systems and Carpooling Behaviors in Parents and Caregivers

Improving Smoke Alarm Self-Report Via a Prompted Questionnaire

Field assessment of a safe sleep instrument using smartphone technology

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