Safety Skills Training: Parents of School-Aged Children
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 175
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Behavioral measure: identification of correct/incorrect car booster safety seat, seat belt, and bicycle helmet placement
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in children in America. Most injuries can be prevented when parents implement effective child safety practices. This project will create a behaviorally based program to teach parents what to do to prevent injuries to their school aged child, in an effort to reduce the number of injuries, hospitalizations, medical costs, and missed work days.
Detailed Description
This project will produce a comprehensive, interactive multimedia (IMM) program to teach childhood injury prevention skills to parents of children 6 through 11 years of age. This is one of a four-part series of funded programs to address injury prevention issues for three age groups of children (birth through 24 months, 2-5 years of age and 6-11 years of age). The program will be created in three formats: Internet/intranet, CD-ROM, and linear video (DVD) suitable for use in homes, worksites, medical settings, service agencies, and health information Web sites. On-screen narrators will guide the user through program material comprised of short video presentations, modeling vignettes demonstrating desired behaviors, supportive testimonials, and suggestions for modifications to home and recreational environments.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •The basic lower age limit for parents or guardians of children aged 6-11 for this study was
- •Parents or legal guardians could potentially be as old as 65 or older.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Only English-speaking participants were accepted because the program was developed only for English speakers. All English-speaking parents or guardians living in the U.S., with children aged 6-11 years old, who wished to participate were included. Parents under 18 were excluded from this online study because parental consent cannot be obtained online.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Behavioral measure: identification of correct/incorrect car booster safety seat, seat belt, and bicycle helmet placement
Time Frame: Immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Parents viewed 2 car seat installations and were asked whether 7 car booster safety seat situations (e.g., age of the child for the seat) and 7 seat belt installations (e.g., placement of the seat belt) were correct or incorrect. Parents also viewed a bicycle helmet on a dummy and were asked to identify whether 2 helmet situations were correct or incorrect.
Secondary Outcomes
- Knowledge of injury prevention strategies(immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up)
- Attitudes and beliefs about injury prevention strategies(immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up)
- Self-efficacy for engaging in injury prevention strategies(immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up)
Investigators
Susan Schroeder
Research Scientist
Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc.