Clinical trial NCT02835768: Effectiveness of Internet-based Injury Prevention Program in Enhancing Mother's Knowledge on Child Safety
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Child Safety
Injury Prevention
Internet-based Intervention
Anticipatory Guidance
Chinese Mothers
Lead sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-07-18
Enrollment: 1012
Sex: FEMALE
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized Controlled Trial
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Background: Provision of anticipatory guidance to parents is recommended as an effective strategy to prevent injuries among young children. Internet-based anticipatory guidance is suggested to reinforce the effectiveness of injury prevention, and improve parents' knowledge on child safety. Parents receiving the guidance can reduce children's exposure to injury risk by adopting better childcare practices and using appropriate child safety devices at home.

Objective: This study will examine the effectiveness of Internet-based injury prevention program with parental anticipatory guidance in enhancing mothers' knowledge on child safety. It aims at increasing mothers' knowledge and motivation of learning about domestic injury prevention through a new Internet-based intervention model. It also targets to improve mothers' attitude and perceived behavioral control of domestic safety practice.

Methods: The study would adopt a randomized controlled trial design and recruit 934 mothers from the antenatal clinics and postnatal wards of two major public hospitals in Hong Kong. Participating mothers will be randomized into the intervention or control group with equal likelihood. Mothers in intervention group will be provided with free access to an Internet-based injury prevention program with anticipatory guideline whereas those in the control group will receive relevant parenting booklet.

Results: It is hypothesized that mothers' general and age-appropriate knowledge on child safety and motivation of learning about domestic injury prevention as the primary outcome measures will be enhanced.

Conclusions: The Internet is increasingly recognized as a practical and cost-effective platform for health education and safety information delivery. The goals of this study are to examine the effectiveness of a new Internet-based intervention program for improving mothers' knowledge, and raising mothers' awareness about the importance and consequences caused by domestic injuries.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mothers attending the antenatal clinics/staying in the postnatal wards at Kwong Wah Hospital or Queen Mary Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Mothers unable to read Chinese and those without access to Internet.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of general safety knowledge
timeFrame: At the beginning of the study and infants' ages of 18-month-old
measure: 2-month-old safety knowledge
timeFrame: At infants' ages of 2-month-old
measure: 6-month-old safety knowledge
timeFrame: At infants' ages of 6-month-old
measure: 9-month-old safety knowledge
timeFrame: At infants' ages of 9-month-old
measure: 12-month-old safety knowledge
timeFrame: At infants' ages of 12-month-old
measure: 18-month-old safety knowledge
timeFrame: At infants' ages of 18-month-old
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Website usage statistics
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Website user acceptance
timeFrame: At the end of the study, an average of 18 months
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References:
citation: Chow CB, Wong WH, Leung WC, Tang MH, Chan KL, Or CK, Li TM, Ho FK, Lo D, Ip P. Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Injury Prevention Program for Enhancing Mothers' Knowledge of Child Safety: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Oct 31;5(4):e205. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6216.