Safety Skills Training For Parents of Preschool Children (Preschool_2)

Oregon Center for Applied Science

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Safety 123; Behavioral: AAP TIPP sheets

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02934165

R44HD047068 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

SBIR72RR-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

As the leading cause of death and disability in children in America, unintentional injuries are a critical public health issue. Most injuries can be prevented by parents implementing effective child safety practices. This project produced an interactive multimedia (IMM) program delivered via Internet/Intranet that taught injury prevention skills to parents of children aged 2 through 5 years, with the ultimate goal of reducing mortality and disability from unintentional injury in this population.

Full description

This project produced a comprehensive, interactive multimedia (IMM) program called Family Safety 123 to teach childhood injury prevention skills to parents of children 2 to 5 years of age. The program contained 40 high-quality video clips, each 2 to 5 minutes in length, depicting injury prevention strategies in 13 content areas: supervision, preventing airway obstructions, poison awareness, preventing burns, preventing falls, firearm safety, motor vehicle safety, pedestrian awareness, sports, playgrounds, water safety, bike safety, and other safety concerns. Each content area contained 1 to 6 videos comprised of short video presentations, modeling vignettes demonstrating desired behaviors, supportive testimonials, and suggestions for modifications to home and recreational environments. Family Safety 123 video content is derived from The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) sheets developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recognizes injury prevention as a primary topic for parents.

Enrollment: 151 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of children aged 2-5 potentially were as young as 18 years old. 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 of children aged 2-5 years old who wished to participate were included. Online Survey: parents under 18 years of age were excluded because we were unable to obtain parental consent online.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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151 participants in 2 patient groups

Family Safety 123

Experimental group

Description:

Parents viewed a website with videos on child injury prevention strategies and received emails for 30 days inviting them to view additional videos.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Safety 123

AAP TIPP sheets

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents viewed online injury prevention materials developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and had continuing access to these materials for 30 days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AAP TIPP sheets