A RCT Testing If a Storybook Can Teach Children About Home Safety
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY(2021)
摘要
Objective Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children under 19 years of age. For preschoolers, many injuries occur in the home. Addressing this issue, this study assessed if a storybook about home safety could be effective to increase preschoolers' safety knowledge and reduce their injury-risk behaviors. Methods Applying a randomized controlled trial design, normally developing English speaking preschool children (3.5-5.5 years) in Southwestern Ontario Canada were randomly assigned to the control condition (a storybook about healthy eating, N=30) or the intervention condition (a storybook about home hazards, N=29). They read the assigned storybook with their mother for 4 weeks; time spent reading was tracked, and fidelity checks based on home visits were implemented. Results Comparing postintervention knowledge, understanding score, and risk behaviors across groups revealed that children who received the intervention were able to identify more hazards, provide more comprehensive safety explanations, and demonstrate fewer risky behaviors compared with children in the control group (eta(2)(p) = 0.13, 0.19, and 0.51, respectively), who showed no significant changes over time in safety knowledge, understanding, or risk behaviors. Compliance with reading the safety book and fidelity in how they did so were very good. Conclusions A storybook can be an effective resource for educating young children about home safety and reducing their hazard-directed risk behaviors.
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accidents and injuries, intervention outcome, prevention science, randomized controlled trial
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