Clinical trial NCT01291225: Safe Play Areas for Ross County Kids Project
Official title: Safe Play Areas for Ross County Kids Project
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Other Specified Personal Exposures and History Presenting Hazards to Health
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Fall Involving Playground Equipment, Occurrence on Farm
Keywords: playgrounds
farms
injury prevention
safety knowledge, attitudes and practices
safe play
rural
Lead sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ohio State University
First posted: 2011-02-08
Enrollment: 311
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Specific Aim 1 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, renovate and develop playgrounds in Chillicothe.

Specific Aim 2 - In collaboration with partners in Ross County, promote safe play and play areas for children on farms.

Detailed description: Injury is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among children in the United States. Because children spend much of their time playing, it is important that they have safe play environments where they can challenge themselves and develop physically, mentally, and socially. The SPARK Project will focus its intervention in Ross County, Ohio, an area with more than 930 farms. Prior to this project, relatively little has been done to promote the prevention of injuries to children who live and play on farms.

The specific aims of this project are as follows:

* In collaboration with partners in Ross County, renovate and develop playgrounds in Chillicothe, Ohio.
* In collaboration with partners in Ross County, promote safe play areas for children on farms.

The SPARK Project will employ a multi-faceted approach to injury prevention, centered on community partnership and collaboration. Utilizing methodology that was successfully developed and implemented as part of the Community Action for Playground Safety (CAPS) Program in Columbus, the SPARK Project will combine both active and passive injury prevention strategies to reduce playground and play-related farm injuries to children in Ross County.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* For playgrounds

  * must be seen at Adena Medical Center or Pickaway Pediatrics
  * must be the parent of a child younger than 6 years of age
  * must live in Chillicothe (if recruited at Adena) or Circleville (if recruited at Pickaway Peds)
  * must be English speaking
  * must be at least 18 years old
* For farms

  * must self-identify as living on a farm
  * must have a child younger than 6 years of age
  * must live in Ross county or Pickaway county
  * must be English speaking
  * must be at least 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants can only enroll in one study at a time

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Playground Hazards
timeFrame: Year 1 baseline to year 3 follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Playground and Farm Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Composite Scores
timeFrame: Year 1 baseline to Year 3 follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
name: Gary A Smith, MD, DrPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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