Injury Prevention Briefing: Preventing unintentional injuries to the under fives: a guide for practitioners

Hayes, Mike; Kendrick, Denise; Deave, Toity

Abstract

The resource Injury Prevention Briefing: Preventing unintentional injuries to the under fives: a guide for practitioners offers activities and advice focusing on preventing falls, scalds, fire-related injuries and poisonings.
The Briefing draws heavily on scientific evidence and the experience of practitioners. It has been developed following detailed reviews of the scientific literature, a series of an extensive case-control studies comparing the characteristics of children who had suffered injuries with matched controls who had not, a trial of the impact of an earlier version of a similar resource in children’s centres in and around the project’s four study areas (Nottingham, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne and Norwich), cost effectiveness assessments of different prevention approaches, interviews with families and children’s centre staff, and focus groups and workshops involving a wide range of practitioners.
The Briefing includes sections that dealing with general prevention issues such as the link between accidents and deprivation, and evaluation methods; eleven activities to be run with parents; and background information about each of the injury topics.
As well as covering the specific injury topics, the activities are aimed at helping practitioners get across to parents that, by anticipating the development of their child, unintentional injuries may be prevented, the need to check - and improve - the safety of their home, and what items of safety equipment are the most important. The approach throughout the activities is helping parents discover child safety for themselves rather than telling them what to do.

• Digital Artefact Type: Other
• Deposit Date: May 13, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 13, 2021
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6826604