Prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury in Youth and Adolescents

Augusta University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Focus of Study: Bicycle Helmet Wearing Compliance

Treatments: Behavioral: education intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01629121

GHSF11085

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis was that the implementation of a Safe Kids East Central brain injury prevention program targeting children and caregivers admitted to the Georgia Health Sciences University Children's Medical Center is feasible and that short-term treatment effects of injury prevention education on the child or adolescent and the caregiver will increase bicycle helmet use.

Full description

The overarching goal of this project is to reduce traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents by promoting bicycle helmet use via an inpatient educational program. The Safe Kids East Central injury prevention educational program was customized for hospitalized subjects and their caregivers. The investigators hypothesized that this program would increase bicycle helmet use.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitalized in-patients in the Children's Medical Center;
• Projected length of stay >24 hours;
• Mentally and physically fit to complete the educational program;
• History of regular (>1x per week) bicycle riding;
• All racial/ethnic groups.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

education intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention delivered education about the benefits of bicycle helmet use and safety and was designed to be sensitive to the age and educational level of the study participant.

Treatment:

Behavioral: education intervention

control

No Intervention group

Description:

Printed materials were given to the control group, along with a helmet for each participant.