Effectiveness of school based interventions in promoting child safety and reducing childhood injuries in a District of Coastal South India – A Cluster Randomised Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 2,214
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Outcome will be assessed by determining the incidence of injury from the questionnaire which will be used at the baseline, and at the end of 3, 6, 9 and 11th month.
研究概览
简要总结
Need for the study: Theburden of communicable, infectious and nutritional disorders is gradually onthe decline due to massive efforts and investments by successive Indiangovernments, simultaneously it is noticed that more and more children who haveescaped from infectious disease morbidity and mortality are becoming victims ofinjury on road, at home and in public recreational places.Child safety promotion and injury preventionrequires combined, coordinated and sustainable effort from the variousministries and departments. As the etiology of childhood injuries are diverse,many interventions are need to be planned in an integrated way. As the childspends considerable amount of time in school, targeting school children andschool teachers in promoting child safety and injury prevention strategy mightbe a useful intervention. In US and other developed countries incidence ofchildhood injuries reduced drastically after adopting necessary preventivemeasures.
Study Objectives
1) To estimate the incidence of injuries amongschool children and to assess the knowledge of school teachers in child safetyand injury prevention strategies.
2) Todesign a comprehensive school based child safety and injury prevention module
3) Toevaluate the effect of comprehensive school based module on incidence ofchildhood injuries.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Computer generated randomization
- 盲法
- Not Applicable
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10.00 Year(s) 至 13.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •â€¢Children attending class 5 to 7 in any of the schools selected for this study.
- •â€¢Informed consent from the parent or guardian to participate in this study, and assent from the child.
排除标准
- •â€¢Not available for end line survey after 11 months.
结局指标
主要结局
Outcome will be assessed by determining the incidence of injury from the questionnaire which will be used at the baseline, and at the end of 3, 6, 9 and 11th month.
时间窗: Outcome will be assessed by determining the incidence of injury from the questionnaire which will be used at the baseline, and at the end of 3, 6, 9 and 11th month. | Operational definition of childhood injuries will be taken from the World Health Organization guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence.
Operational definition of childhood injuries will be taken from the World Health Organization guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence.
时间窗: Outcome will be assessed by determining the incidence of injury from the questionnaire which will be used at the baseline, and at the end of 3, 6, 9 and 11th month. | Operational definition of childhood injuries will be taken from the World Health Organization guidelines for conducting community surveys on injuries and violence.
次要结局
未报告次要终点