Prevention of childhood injuries: evaluation of the Statewide Childhood Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP).

Guyer, Bernard; Gallagher, Susan Scavo; Chang, Bei-Hung; Azzara, Carey V.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Colton, Theodore

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“…These included a CBA evaluating a community injury prevention programme (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.57À1.58 (Guyer et al, 1989)), one NRCT evaluating poison prevention education (IRR 0.98, 95% CI 0.45À2.13 (Fergusson, Horwood, Beautrais, & Shannon, 1982)), one NRCT evaluating safety education and safety equipment provision covering In unpaid work…”

Section: Interventions To Prevent Poisoning-related Injuriesmentioning

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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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Section: Interventions To Prevent Poisoning-related Injuriesmentioning

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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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“…11,16 Additional study is needed to learn the best injury prevention methods for use with low-income families. Counseling may be more effective when it is associated with more concrete measures like environmental modification.…”

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Injury Prevention Education Using Pictorial Information

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ABSTRACT. Background. Written materials used in pediatric public health settings often exceed the reading skills of caretakers.Objective. To compare a pictorial anticipatory guidance (PAG) sheet requiring limited reading skills to a TIPP (The Injury Prevention Program) sheet for providing injury prevention information to low-income urban families.Design and Setting. A convenience sample of families with children treated at an urban pediatric clinic affiliated with a teaching hospital.Methods. Parents of children <6 years old received either a PAG sheet or a TIPP sheet during a well-child care clinic visit; parents of children seen in the morning clinic received a PAG sheet and those seen during the afternoon clinic a TIPP sheet. All also received injury prevention counseling by a clinic nurse. The recall of injury prevention information was assessed by telephone questionnaire 14 to 28 days after the clinic encounter.Results. We interviewed 66 parents (57% of families enrolled): 46 were in the PAG group and 20 in the TIPP group. There were no differences between groups in mean parent age, percent minority race, or percent public aid. Eighty-seven percent of PAG and 100% of TIPP parents recalled receiving an information sheet; 17% of PAG and 20% of TIPP parents could recall no specific injury topics. The mean number of topics recalled was 2.1 ؎ 1.5 from parents in the PAG group and 1.6 ؎ 1.1 from those in the TIPP group. No specific injury topic was recalled by more than half the parents in either group.Conclusions. Recall of injury information several weeks after a clinic visit is limited. The use of PAG sheets did not improve recall; lack of literacy is not the sole cause of poor recall. Successful injury prevention counseling in this population may require comprehensive and repetitive efforts. I njuries are the leading cause of death and disability during childhood. Each year, an estimated 600 000 children are hospitalized because of injuries, and an estimated 16 million more are treated in emergency departments.1 In Chicago, among children Յ14 years old, unintentional injuries, homicides, and motor vehicle injuries are the 3 leading causes of death.2 Childhood injuries disproportionately affect low-income and minority children. The injury death rates for black children for homicide, fires and burns, drowning, and pedestrian injury range from 1.5 to 5 times those for white children. [3][4][5][6] There is a clear need to target injury prevention efforts to these children.The American Academy of Pediatrics developed TIPP (The Injury Prevention Program) to prevent injuries. TIPP consists of a childhood safety counseling schedule and safety information sheets to be used in providing anticipatory guidance to parents. Using TIPP anticipatory guidance sheets helps to focus counseling on selected important injury topics with proven interventions. Most significant safety topics are reviewed at several clinic visits. 7The TIPP program meets the needs of many families. However, we were concerned that the parents of the ch...

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“…Eligible interventions were coordinated, multi-strategy initiatives, and controlled community trials were included that reported changes in medically attended injuries. Of 32 studies, 3 met criteria for inclusion (Guyer et al, 1989;MacKay & Rothman, 1982;Ytterstad, Smith, & Coggan, 1998;Ytterstad & Sogaard, 1995). Project Burn Prevention was an educational campaign delivered through mass media, schools, and community organizations and was implemented in two Boston communities from October 1977 to May 1978(MacKay & Rothman, 1982.…”

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“…The Massachusetts Statewide Childhood Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP) was an injury prevention educational intervention, with burn prevention being one of fi ve target project areas; it was implemented in nine cities between September 1980 and June 1982. SCIPP implemented the Project Burn Prevention curricula through schools, libraries, police and fi re authorities, and day-care facilities (Guyer et al, 1989). The Harstad Injury Prevention Study used the Safe Communities method and targeted burns and scalds in children younger than 5 years of age.…”

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