Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project

An Evidence-Based Practice

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Description

The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CIPP) was a comprehensive pedestrian safety intervention for primary school aged children. The 3-year project followed 1,603 children from age 6 through age 9. The program included an educational intervention for students, their parents and teachers, and the local community as well as environmental interventions. Structural improvements made in the communities included new footpaths, safer parking/drop-off areas, marking to indicate safe crossing areas, traffic calming devices, programs to map and mark footprints to show children safe pedestrian routes, and changes in speed limits around schools. Nine, 40-minute safety lessons were taught by teachers in schools throughout the year with a focus on pedestrian skills training in a real road environment using school access and local roads. Parents were encouraged to participate in home activities to supplement school activities.

Goal / Mission

The goal of this project was to improve children's road-related behavior and to enhance the safety of their road environment.

Results / Accomplishments

An evaluation used a pre- and posttest questionnaire to compare three communities assigned to the following treatment conditions: (1) high - education, community, and environmental interventions; (2) moderate - education intervention only; and (3) comparison - standard road safety education. Children in the high and moderate intervention groups were significantly more likely to cross the road with adult supervision (p = 0.013) and play away from the road (p = 0.000) than the comparison group. There were no differences in the children's pedestrian safety knowledge between intervention and comparison groups.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Centre for Health Promotion Research
Primary Contact
No current contact information available
Topics
Community / Public Safety
Health / Prevention & Safety
Health / Children's Health
Organization(s)
Centre for Health Promotion Research
Source
Preventive Medicine
Date of publication
2000
Date of implementation
1995
Location
Perth, Western Australia
For more details
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10684740?itool=...
Target Audience
Children

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.