Stamp-in-Safety Playground Safety Project

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Injury Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Stamp-in-Safety curriculum; Behavioral: Stamp-in-Safety Curriculum

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00982917

2006-12867

Details and patient eligibility

About

Playground injuries are common at childcare centers. Adequate adult supervision is an important component to reducing playground injuries in preschool children. The investigators studied the Stamp-in-Safety Program, an intervention to improve adult supervision and reduce children's risky playground behaviors.

Full description

Using a non-equivalent control group design, we evaluated the Stamp-in-Safety program which increases the quality of adult supervision and rewards children for safe play. In an urban childcare center, 71 children, ages 3-5 years, and 15 teachers participated in the study. The primary outcome measures were teacher verbalizations (warnings, explanations, redirects), teacher location (core, outskirts, or fringe of playground), risk taking behaviors by children (using equipment appropriately), and number of injuries on the playground.

Enrollment: 71 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• teachers at childcare center
• students at childcare center

Exclusion criteria

• not affiliated with childcare center

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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71 participants in 2 patient groups

teachers taught curriculum

Experimental group

Description:

Teachers taught Stamp-in-Safety curriculum

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stamp-in-Safety Curriculum

teachers do not learn curriculum

Experimental group

Description:

Teachers are not taught Stamp-in-Safety curriculum

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stamp-in-Safety Curriculum