Safe Play Areas for Ross County Kids Project (SPARK)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Other Specified Personal Exposures and History Presenting Hazards to Health; Fall Involving Playground Equipment, Occurrence on Farm; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational campaign; Other: Playground renovation and development

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01291225

IRB10-00368

Details and patient eligibility

About

Specific Aim 1 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, renovate and develop playgrounds in Chillicothe.

Specific Aim 2 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, promote safe play and play areas for children on farms.

Full description

Injury is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among children in the United States. Because children spend much of their time playing, it is important that they have safe play environments where they can challenge themselves and develop physically, mentally, and socially. The SPARK Project will focus its intervention in Ross County, Ohio, an area with more than 930 farms. Prior to this project, relatively little has been done to promote the prevention of injuries to children who live and play on farms.

The specific aims of this project are as follows:

• In collaboration with partners in Ross County, renovate and develop playgrounds in Chillicothe, Ohio.
• In collaboration with partners in Ross County, promote safe play areas for children on farms.

The SPARK Project will employ a multi-faceted approach to injury prevention, centered on community partnership and collaboration. Utilizing methodology that was successfully developed and implemented as part of the Community Action for Playground Safety (CAPS) Program in Columbus, the SPARK Project will combine both active and passive injury prevention strategies to reduce playground and play-related farm injuries to children in Ross County.

Enrollment: 311 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For playgrounds

  • must be seen at Adena Medical Center or Pickaway Pediatrics
  • must be the parent of a child younger than 6 years of age
  • must live in Chillicothe (if recruited at Adena) or Circleville (if recruited at Pickaway Peds)
  • must be English speaking
  • must be at least 18 years old

• For farms

  • must self-identify as living on a farm
  • must have a child younger than 6 years of age
  • must live in Ross county or Pickaway county
  • must be English speaking
  • must be at least 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Participants can only enroll in one study at a time

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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311 participants in 2 patient groups

Playground

Other group

Description:

The playground arm of the study will consist of playground audits and KAP surveys about playground safety in both Chillicothe and Circleville, Ohio. The intervention is Playground Safety Renovations and Development.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational campaign

Other: Playground renovation and development

Farms

Other group

Description:

The Farm Arm will consist of farm audits with safety checklists and KAP surveys about farm safety. The intervention is a Safety Educational Campaign.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational campaign