Helping Children's Centres to Enhance Home Safety

Burns Clinical Trial

Official title:

Keeping Children Safe at Home: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of the Implementation of an Injury Prevention Briefing in Children's Centres for the Prevention of Fire-related Injuries

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01452191
• Other study ID #: 11007
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2011
• Est. completion date: September 2013

Study information

• Verified date: May 2019
• Source: University of Nottingham
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Many children have accidents, some are very serious and they are a major cause of death in children aged 1-4 years. Many accidents are preventable This study aims to find out the best way to help Children's Centres to provide home safety information about preventing fires to parents and carers of young children.

36 Children's Centres in four study centres, Nottingham, Bristol, Norwich and Newcastle will be recruited to the study. 30 families will be recruited from each Children's Centre. Children's Centres serving the most deprived populations will be eligible to take part.

Families will be eligible to take part if they have attended a participating Children's Centre in the previous three months, have parents who are 16 years or older, have a child under three years old and live within the catchment area of that Children's Centre. When 30 families have been recruited that Centre will be allocated, at random, to one of three groups. Children's Centres in group one will be provided with guidance about preventing fire-related injuries (an Injury Prevention Briefing (IPB))and help and support to implement the IPB, the second group will be sent the IPB and the third group will not be provided with the IPB ('usual care'). Children's Centres will devise their own programmes of safety advice for parents based on the IPB.

At recruitment and 12 months later, families and Children's Centres will complete questionnaires about fire safety practices. Children's Centres will also complete a paper-based tool about the implementation process at 12 months. Information about barriers and facilitators to implementing the IPB will be collected through interviews with Children's Centre staff.

The study will run from May 2011 to March 2014.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1112
• Est. completion date: September 2013
• Est. primary completion date: September 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

There are two levels of participation, Children's Centres as participants, who will be delivering the intervention, and families as participants, who will be receiving the intervention.

Children's Centres:

Phase 1 Children's Centres in the four study areas (Nottingham, Newcastle, Bristol and Norwich) Phase 2 Children's Centres in more disadvantaged areas (defined as those who have more than 50% of under 5 year-old children in their Centre catchment area who live in one of the 30% most disadvantaged Super Output Areas).

Families Any family who has attended the participating Children's Centre in the previous three months, who have a child under three years old, and lives within the catchment area of that Children's Centres.

Exclusion Criteria:

Children's Centres:

Phase 2 Children's Centres that are not in more disadvantaged areas as defined above and phase 3 or subsequent wave Children's Centres.

Families Families who attend a participating Children's Centre who do not have any children under the age of 3 years Any parent who is under-16 years of age.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burns
• Smoke Inhalation Injury

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Injury Prevention Briefing Plus facilitation
Injury Prevention Briefing (IPB) to provide best evidence on what works to reduce house fire injuries, and activities to get the evidence into practice. This arm will receive facilitation to support the implementation of the information in the IPB
• Injury Prevention Briefing
Children's centres will receive the Injury Prevention Briefing only.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of West of England, Bristol	Bristol
United Kingdom	Newcastle University	Newcastle
United Kingdom	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Norwich
United Kingdom	University of Nottingham	Nottingham

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nottingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Families With a Fire Escape Plan (Ascertained From Self-completion Questionnaire).		1 year
Secondary	The Number of Childrens Centres Providing Information and Advice on Smoke Alarms		1 year
Secondary	The Number of Children's Centres Providing Information and Advice on How to Make a Fire Escape Plan		1 year
Secondary	The Number of Children's Centres Providing Information and Advice on the Causes of House Fires		1 year
Secondary	The Number of Children's Centres Providing Information and Advice on Child Behaviour and Fire Prevention		1 year
Secondary	The Number of Children's Centres Providing Information and Advice on Bedtime Routines to Prevent Fires		1 year