Clinical trial NCT02329340: Safety Skills Training: Parents of School-Aged Children
Official title: Safety Skills Training: Parents of School-Aged Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Injuries
Keywords: child safety
injury
prevention
computer
internet
Lead sponsor: Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc.
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
Collaborators: name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
First posted: 2014-12-31
Enrollment: 175
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in children in America. Most injuries can be prevented when parents implement effective child safety practices. This project will create a behaviorally based program to teach parents what to do to prevent injuries to their school aged child, in an effort to reduce the number of injuries, hospitalizations, medical costs, and missed work days.

Detailed description: This project will produce a comprehensive, interactive multimedia (IMM) program to teach childhood injury prevention skills to parents of children 6 through 11 years of age. This is one of a four-part series of funded programs to address injury prevention issues for three age groups of children (birth through 24 months, 2-5 years of age and 6-11 years of age). The program will be created in three formats: Internet/intranet, CD-ROM, and linear video (DVD) suitable for use in homes, worksites, medical settings, service agencies, and health information Web sites. On-screen narrators will guide the user through program material comprised of short video presentations, modeling vignettes demonstrating desired behaviors, supportive testimonials, and suggestions for modifications to home and recreational environments.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The basic lower age limit for parents or guardians of children aged 6-11 for this study was 18. 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 or guardians living in the U.S., with children aged 6-11 years old, who wished to participate were included. Parents under 18 were excluded from this online study because parental consent cannot be obtained online.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Behavioral measure: identification of correct/incorrect car booster safety seat, seat belt, and bicycle helmet placement
timeFrame: Immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge of injury prevention strategies
timeFrame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
measure: Attitudes and beliefs about injury prevention strategies
timeFrame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
measure: Self-efficacy for engaging in injury prevention strategies
timeFrame: immediate posttest and 30-day follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Eugene
country: United States
facility: Oregon Center for Applied Science
state: Oregon
Study officials:
affiliation: Oregon Center for Applied Science
name: Lynne H Grilley Swartz, MPH, CHES
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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