Prevention of paediatric acquired brain injury: an interactive, elementary-school program

Responding to a gap in existing programs that aim to prevent spinal cord and brain injuries among children, an interactive activity-based program was developed and implemented through local elementary schools, focusing on children 8 to 10 years of age. Evaluation involved a pretest/post-test design with a comparison group who had not experienced the program. Children who participated in the program showed increases in knowledge, self-reported changes in behaviour, and favourable shifts in attitudes about vulnerability to injury four months after exposure to the program. Control group children responded similarly to how children in the intervention group responded on the pretest measure.