Long term effects of a home visit to prevent childhood injury: three year follow up of a randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the long term effect of a home safety visit on the rate of home injury.

Design

Telephone survey conducted 36 months after participation in a randomized controlled trial of a home safety intervention. A structured interview assessed participant knowledge, beliefs, or practices around injury prevention and the number of injuries requiring medical attention.

Setting

Five pediatric teaching hospitals in four Canadian urban centres.

Participants

Children less than 8 years of age presenting to an emergency department with a targeted home injury (fall, scald, burn, poisoning or ingestion, choking, or head injury while riding a bicycle), a non-targeted injury, or a medical illness.

Results

We contacted 774 (66%) of the 1172 original participa

SUBMITTER: King WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1730192 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature