Risk Watch: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluating an Injury Prevention Program

Risk Watch is a school-based educational injury prevention program aimed at improving bike and pedestrian safety and reducing falls, poisoning and fire injuries. This paper describes a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the Risk Watch program. A cluster randomized controlled trial approach was used, with 459 child participants aged 7 to 10 years in 20 primary schools in Nottingham, UK. Results showed that intervention group children correctly answered more fire and burn prevention knowledge questions than control group children at follow-up. Children in intervention group schools were more likely to know the correct actions to take if clothes catch fire and the correct way to wear a bicycle helmet. They were also more likely to know the correct actions to take in a house fire and on finding pills and correctly demonstrated more safety skills than control group children. There was little evidence to suggest that the first year of the program impacted on self-reported safety behaviors. These findings suggest that the Risk Watch program does increase some aspects of children’s safety knowledge and skills, although more research is needed to examine retention of knowledge and skills and the impact on injury rates and child safety behaviors.

• Record URL:
  • http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/13/2/93
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Kendrick, Denise
  • Groom, Lindsay
  • Stewart, Jane
  • Watson, Michael
  • Mulvaney, Caroline
  • Casterton, Rebecca
• Publication Date: 2007-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 93-98
• Serial:
  • Injury Prevention
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
  • ISSN: 1353-8047
  • EISSN: 1475-5785
  • Serial URL: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Cluster analysis; Control groups; Controlled trials; Evaluation and assessment; Falls; Fire; Injury rates; Knowledge; Pedestrian safety; Poisons; Safety education; School children; Schools
• Identifier Terms: Risk Watch
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bicycle safety; Interventions
• Geographic Terms: Nottingham (England)
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01049695
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 25 2007 10:34AM