Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention

Kendrick, Denise; Young, Ben; Mason‐Jones, Amanda J.; Ilyas, Nohaid; Achana, Felix; Cooper, Nicola J.; Hubbard, Stephanie J.; Sutton, Alex J.; Smith, Sherie; Wynn, Persephone; Mulvaney, Caroline; Watson, Michael Craig; Coupland, Carol

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd005014.pub3

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“…At a population level, legislative measures such as modification of medicine and poison packaging, fencing of swimming pools, regulation of hot water temperature, use of child passenger restraints and booster seats and installation of smoke alarms have been successful in reducing child injuries 10–13,49,50 . However, our findings suggest that these have not been successful in reducing injury inequalities.…”

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“…U nintentional injuries are a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality in Australia, 1–3 and a major contributor to the health gap between Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal children 4–8 . These injuries are highly preventable 9 and at population level legislative measures, as well as product modification, and safety campaigns have contributed to a decrease in injury rates 10–14 …”

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“…However, broad population level injury prevention strategies alone may not reduce health inequalities and may even increase them through differential access to, uptake of, or effectiveness of interventions between social groups 10,15 . In contrast, programs specifically targeted at vulnerable population groups can help reduce injury inequalities 14 .…”

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Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention

Möller¹,

Falster

Ivers

et al. 2017

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To describe the leading mechanisms of hospitalised unintentional injury in Australian Aboriginal children and identify the injury mechanisms with the largest inequalities between Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal children. Methods: We used linked hospital and mortality data to construct a whole of population birth cohort including 1,124,717 children (1,088,645 non‐Aboriginal and 35,749 Aboriginal) born in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, between 1 July 2000 and 31 December 2012. Injury hospitalisation rates were calculated per person years at risk for injury mechanisms coded according to the ICD10‐AM classification. Results: The leading injury mechanisms in both groups of children were falls from playground equipment. For 66 of the 69 injury mechanisms studied, Aboriginal children had a higher rate of hospitalisation compared with non‐Aboriginal children. The largest relative inequalities were observed for injuries due to exposure to fire and flame, and the largest absolute inequalities for injuries due to falls from playground equipment. Conclusion: Aboriginal children in NSW experience a significant higher burden of unintentional injury compared with their non‐Aboriginal counterparts. Implications for Public Health: We suggest the implementation of targeted injury prevention measures aimed at injury mechanism and age groups identified in this study.

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Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention

Möller¹,

Falster

Ivers

et al. 2017

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…Places of worship could be effective as a promoting communication channel as most exposed people (old women, above all in the South/Islands) go there very regularly [31]. Specific interventions provided as face-to-face education, especially with the provision of safety equipment, could be used for increasing safety practices [35]. …”

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Epidemiological Risk Analysis of Home Injuries in Italy (1999–2006)

Ferrante

Marinaccio

Iavicoli

2014

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Home injuries are an important public health issue in both developed and developing countries. This study focused on the Italian epidemiological framework between 1999 and 2006, using a nation-representative sample provided by the National Institute of Statistics. Every year, about 3,000,000 Italian residents reported at least one home injury, with an overall annual rate of 5.2/100 (95% CI 5.1–5.4); 3.2/100 (3.0–3.4) for males and 7.2/100 (6.9–7.4) for females. Poisson regression models were used for different age-specific populations (children, young/adults and older people), to evaluate the effects of socio-demographic, health/income satisfaction and housing variables. For children, non-applicable variables (including smoking and health satisfaction) were taken as those of the head of family, while housework time was taken the family mean time. Evidence of decreasing time trend in risk of home injury was found only among young/adults (p < 0.01). The following were risk factors: female gender (adjusted relative risk—RR 2.0 for older people and RR 1.9 for young/adults, p < 0.01); one additional hour of work at home (RR 1.009, p < 0.01 for young/adults and RR 1.016, p = 0.01 for children); smoking (RR 1.3, p < 0.01 for young/adults and p = 0.02 for children); health dissatisfaction (RR 1.3, p = 0.05 for children, RR 1.6 for young/adults and RR 1.7 for older people, p < 0.01); income dissatisfaction (RR 1.2, p < 0.01 for young/adults ); living alone (RR 1.5, p < 0.01 for young/adults and RR 1.2, p < 0.02 for the older people); having a garden (RR 1.1, p < 0.01 for young/adults ). Awareness of the need for safety at home could be boosted by information campaigns on the risk, and its social cost could be reduced by specific prevention schemes. Developing tools for assessing the risk at home and for removing the main hazards would be useful for both informative and prevention interventions.

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“…For example, a number of recent studies offer strong evidence that home visits by community health workers or similar allied health professionals can reduce childhood injuries in HICs [9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. In addition, healthcare practitioners in most HICs have an abundance of pre-designed pamphlets and information sheets regarding methods for “safety-proofing” a home for young children [16,17].…”

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Disseminating Childhood Home Injury Risk Reduction Information in Pakistan: Results from a Community-Based Pilot Study

Chandran

Khan

Zia

et al. 2013

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Background: Most childhood unintentional injuries occur in the home; however, very little home injury prevention information is tailored to developing countries. Utilizing our previously developed information dissemination tools and a hazard assessment checklist tailored to a low-income neighborhood in Pakistan, we pilot tested and compared the effectiveness of two dissemination tools. Methods: Two low-income neighborhoods were mapped, identifying families with a child aged between 12 and 59 months. In June and July 2010, all enrolled households underwent a home hazard assessment at the same time hazard reduction education was being given using an in-home tutorial or a pamphlet. A follow up assessment was conducted 4–5 months later. Results: 503 households were enrolled; 256 received a tutorial and 247 a pamphlet. The two groups differed significantly (p < 0.01) in level of maternal education and relationship of the child to the primary caregiver. However, when controlling for these variables, those receiving an in-home tutorial had a higher odds of hazard reduction than the pamphlet group for uncovered vats of water (OR 2.14, 95% CI: 1.28, 3.58), an open fire within reach of the child (OR 3.55, 95% CI: 1.80, 7.00), and inappropriately labeled cooking fuel containers (OR 1.86, 95% CI: 1.07, 3.25). Conclusions: This pilot project demonstrates the potential utility of using home-visit tutorials to decrease home hazards in a low-income neighborhood in Pakistan. A longer-term randomized study is needed to assess actual effectiveness of the use of allied health workers for home-based injury education and whether this results in decreased home injuries.

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Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention

Abstract: Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention.

Cited by 127 publications

References 307 publications

Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention

Closing the Aboriginal child injury gap: targets for injury prevention

Epidemiological Risk Analysis of Home Injuries in Italy (1999–2006)

Disseminating Childhood Home Injury Risk Reduction Information in Pakistan: Results from a Community-Based Pilot Study

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