Process evaluation of a child pedestrian injury prevention intervention

The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP) is a rigorous school- and community-based intervention trial delivered to 2,500 children in their second, third and fourth year of schooling in three communities in Perth, Western Australia, from 1995 to 1997. The CPIPP was designed to improve children's pedestrian safety knowledge, their road related behaviors - crossing and playing, and to reduce their risk in, and exposure to, traffic. This thesis addresses the process evaluation of the CPIPP school-based intervention. Multivariate analyses revealed students' pedestrian safety knowledge was significantly associated with teacher implementation of the classroom curriculum. Student work samples, teacher lesson logs and to a lesser extent teacher self-report questionnaires, were found to be valid measures of curriculum implementation. This study also found that implementation of the CPIPP curriculum achieved a modest improvement in student pedestrian safety knowledge and possibly arrested the decline of safe road crossing behaviour. It also demonstrated that classroom pedestrian safety education alone, while necessary, is not sufficient to positively modify children's road crossing behaviours. The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of measuring teacher implementation. A process evaluation is essential to determine if an intervention has been implemented and to help explain the impact this level of implementation had on program outcomes.

• Record URL:
  • http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R?func=search-simple-go&ADJACENT=Y&REQUEST=adt-WCU20021017.110641
• Supplemental Notes:
  • PhD thesis
• Authors:
  • Hall, M
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 vol (various pagings)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Children; Evaluation; Pedestrians; Schools; Traffic safety education; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: Perth (Australia)
• ATRI Terms: Child; Evaluation; Injury prevention; Pedestrian; Road user behaviour; Road user education; School
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Pedestrians and Bicyclists;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01387443
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 22 2012 10:26PM