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Review: parenting interventions can reduce unintentional injuries in children and increase use of safety practices

D Kendrick

Dr D Kendrick, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; denise.kendrick@nottingham.ac.uk

QUESTION
Do parenting interventions reduce unintentional injuries in children and increase use of safety equipment and practices?

REVIEW SCOPE
Studies selected compared individual-based or group-based parenting interventions with no intervention (control) in parents of children 18 years of age and reported 1 of the outcomes listed below. Interventions had to have a specified protocol, manual, or curriculum to change parenting knowledge, attitudes, or skills. Outcomes were self-reported or medically attended unintentional injury or injury of unspecified intent, Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) scores (higher score = safer home environment), possession and use of home safety equipment, and safety practices (eg, unsafe hot water temperature). Meta-analysis could not be done for home safety outcomes because of heterogeneity in the measurements.

REVIEW METHODS
Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 11 other databases, conference abstracts, reference . . . [Full text of this article]

M Loretta Secco

Cape Breton University, Nursing Department, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada