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Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children’s centres (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Institute of Health Promotion and Education. The aim of this study is to understand barriers and facilitators to the delivery of injury prevention programmes in English children’s centres (CCs). Unintentional injury is a major cause of disabil... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children’s centres.

Environmental change to reduce child injury in low and middle income countries: A systematic review (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Injuries sustained in the home are a significant contributor to the burden of death and disabilities among young children especially those living in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). The objective of this review was to identify and... Read More about Environmental change to reduce child injury in low and middle income countries: A systematic review.

The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Pant et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Abstract Background Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance syste... Read More about The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers.

Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: A qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Ablewhite et al. Background: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Many unintentional injuries experienced by children aged under 5 years occur within the home and are preventable. The aim of this study... Read More about Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: A qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years.

Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: A qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Ablewhite et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Background: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Most of these injuries occur at home, and many are preventable. The main aim of this study was to identify key... Read More about Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: A qualitative study.

Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children's centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Hindmarch et al. Background: Failure to retain participants in randomised controlled trials and longitudinal studies can cause significant methodological problems. We report the recruitment and retention strategies of a randomised controlled t... Read More about Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children's centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England.

Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Beckett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: To improve the translation of public health evidence into practice, there is a need to increase practitioner involvement in initiative development, to place greater emphasis on contextua... Read More about Implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing to aid delivery of key fire safety messages in UK children's centres: Qualitative study nested within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

Keeping children safe at home: protocol for a case-control study of modifiable risk factors for scalds (2014)
Journal Article

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. BACKGROUND: Scalds are one of the most common forms of thermal inju... Read More about Keeping children safe at home: protocol for a case-control study of modifiable risk factors for scalds.

Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating implementation of a fire prevention Injury Prevention Briefing in children's centres: Study protocol (2014)
Journal Article

Background: The UK has one of the highest fatality rates for deaths from fire-related injuries in children aged 0-14 years; these injuries have the steepest social gradient of all injuries in the UK. Children's centres provide children under five yea... Read More about Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating implementation of a fire prevention Injury Prevention Briefing in children's centres: Study protocol.

The role of community centre-based arts, leisure and social activities in promoting adult well-being and healthy lifestyles (2013)
Journal Article

Developed countries are experiencing high levels of mental and physical illness associated with long term health conditions, unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population. Given the limited capacity of the formal health care sector to address these p... Read More about The role of community centre-based arts, leisure and social activities in promoting adult well-being and healthy lifestyles.