Development and Evaluation of an Adult Burn Prevention Program

The University of Queensland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burns

Treatments: Other: multimedia burn awareness campaign

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01608581

flaming fool

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a targeted burn prevention message on burn safety knowledge and behavior.

Full description

Flammable liquid burns comprise 23% of admissions to our burn center. This was a project to test the uptake of the message "Don't be a Flaming Fool" delivered via multi-media campaign.

Enrollment: 1,637 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• male 16 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

• males less than 16 years of age
• females

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,637 participants in 1 patient group

exposure to multi-media campaign

Experimental group

Description:

A multimedia campaign highlighting dangers of gasoline and fire was delivered to an intervention region in the state of Queensland

Treatment:

Other: multimedia burn awareness campaign