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Accidental injury: risk and preventative interventions

I van Weeghel1, D Kendrick, P Marsh

  • 1Faculty of Medicine, University of Nijmegen, Sommelaan, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Archives of Disease in Childhood
|July 1, 1997
PubMed
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Families facing childhood injury risks actively seek home safety checks and affordable equipment. However, they are less likely to request first aid training, indicating a need for alternative methods to deliver this vital advice.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Injury Prevention
  • Child Safety

Background:

  • Childhood unintentional injuries pose a significant public health concern.
  • Primary care settings offer opportunities to implement injury prevention strategies.
  • The Nottingham Safe at Home project aimed to assess the effectiveness of injury prevention interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between risk factors for childhood unintentional injury and parental requests for specific prevention interventions.
  • To identify which injury prevention interventions are most sought after by families with identified risk factors.

Main Methods:

  • A controlled intervention study was conducted in 17 primary care practices in Nottingham.
  • A postal questionnaire was sent to parents of 3-12 month olds (n=1124) to assess injury risk factors and intervention requests.

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  • Interventions included free home safety checks, low-cost safety equipment, and free first aid training.

    • Main Results:

    • 73% of parents responded, with responders representative of the Nottingham population.
    • 34% requested one intervention, 21% requested two, and 10% requested all three.
    • Risk factors like socioeconomic status and ethnicity were associated with requests for home safety checks and equipment, but not first aid training.

    Conclusions:

    • Families with higher risks for unintentional childhood injury do request home safety checks and low-cost safety equipment.
    • There is a disparity in requests for first aid training among at-risk families.
    • Alternative strategies may be necessary to effectively deliver first aid advice to these families.