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Deave, Toity, Hawkins, Adrian, Kumar, Arun, Hayes, Mike, Cooper, Nicola, Watson, Michael, Ablewhite, Joanne, Coupland, Carol, Sutton, Alex, Majsak-Newman, Gosia, McDaid, Lisa 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-2380, Goodenough, Trudy, Beckett, Kate, McColl, Elaine, Reading, Richard and Kendrick, Denise
(2017)
Evaluating implementation of a fire-prevention injury prevention briefing in children's centres: Cluster randomised controlled trial.
PLoS One, 12 (3).
ISSN 1932-6203
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Abstract
Background: Many developed countries have high mortality rates for fire-related deaths in children aged 0–14 years with steep social gradients. Evidence-based interventions to promote fire safety practices exist, but the impact of implementing a range of these interventions in children’s services has not been assessed. We developed an Injury Prevention Briefing (IPB), which brought together evidence about effective fire safety interventions and good practice in delivering interventions; plus training and facilitation to support its use and evaluated its implementation. Methods: We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial, with integrated qualitative and cost-effectiveness nested studies, across four study sites in England involving children’s centres in disadvantaged areas; participants were staff and families attending those centres. Centres were stratified by study site and randomised within strata to one of three arms: IPB plus facilitation (IPB+), IPB only, usual care. IPB+ centres received initial training and facilitation at months 1, 3, and 8. Baseline data from children’s centres were collected between August 2011 and January 2012 and follow-up data were collected between June 2012 and June 2013. Parent baseline data were collected between January 2012 and May 2012 and follow-up data between May 2013 and September 2013. Data comprised baseline and 12 month parent- and staff-completed questionnaires, facilitation contact data, activity logs and staff interviews. The primary outcome was whether families had a plan for escaping from a house fire. Treatment arms were compared using multilevel models to account for clustering by children’s centre. Results: 1112 parents at 36 children’s centres participated. There was no significant effect of the intervention on families’ possession of plans for escaping from a house fire (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) IPB only vs. usual care: 0.93, 95%CI 0.58, 1.49; AOR IPB+ vs. usual care 1.41, 95%CI 0.91, 2.20). However, significantly more families in the intervention arms reported more behaviours for escaping from house fires (AOR IPB only vs. usual care: 2.56, 95%CI 01.38, 4.76; AOR IPB+ vs. usual care 1.78, 95%CI 1.01, 3.15). Conclusion: Our study demonstrated that children’s centres can deliver an injury prevention intervention to families in disadvantaged communities and achieve changes in home safety behaviours.
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| Additional Information: | Data Availability: Data are available within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Participants were not asked on the consent form to provide consent to data sharing, so further patient data is not publicly available. For more information, please contact the corresponding author. Funding: This paper presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (RP-PG-0407-10231). The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The institutions of the authors therefore received funds for us to carry out the research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2017 05:29 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63162 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0172584 |
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