Effectiveness of Internet-based Injury Prevention Program in Enhancing Mother's Knowledge on Child Safety

NCT ID: NCT02835768

Last Updated: 2019-04-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1012 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-31

Brief Summary

Background: Provision of anticipatory guidance to parents is recommended as an effective strategy to prevent injuries among young children. Internet-based anticipatory guidance is suggested to reinforce the effectiveness of injury prevention, and improve parents' knowledge on child safety. Parents receiving the guidance can reduce children's exposure to injury risk by adopting better childcare practices and using appropriate child safety devices at home.

Objective: This study will examine the effectiveness of Internet-based injury prevention program with parental anticipatory guidance in enhancing mothers' knowledge on child safety. It aims at increasing mothers' knowledge and motivation of learning about domestic injury prevention through a new Internet-based intervention model. It also targets to improve mothers' attitude and perceived behavioral control of domestic safety practice.

Methods: The study would adopt a randomized controlled trial design and recruit 934 mothers from the antenatal clinics and postnatal wards of two major public hospitals in Hong Kong. Participating mothers will be randomized into the intervention or control group with equal likelihood. Mothers in intervention group will be provided with free access to an Internet-based injury prevention program with anticipatory guideline whereas those in the control group will receive relevant parenting booklet.

Results: It is hypothesized that mothers' general and age-appropriate knowledge on child safety and motivation of learning about domestic injury prevention as the primary outcome measures will be enhanced.

Conclusions: The Internet is increasingly recognized as a practical and cost-effective platform for health education and safety information delivery. The goals of this study are to examine the effectiveness of a new Internet-based intervention program for improving mothers' knowledge, and raising mothers' awareness about the importance and consequences caused by domestic injuries.

Conditions

Child Safety; Injury Prevention; Internet-based Intervention; Anticipatory Guidance; Chinese Mothers

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention

Each participant will be provided an information package - the parenting booklet from Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs) about domestic safety tips. Participants will be given an additional leaflet about the domestic safety website with address link and brief introductory information.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Internet-based injury prevention program

Intervention Type: OTHER

An injury prevention website serves as the Internet-based intervention providing two key topics: 1) Types of domestic injury, and 2) how to prevent different types of domestic injury. The domestic injury prevention information "Home Safety Tips" is divided into four subgroups according to various safety issues relevant to infants/children's age groups. Apart from a knowledge hub, the website incorporates additional functions of feedback counselling, video demonstration, online consultation, games, safety checklist and discussion forum.

Control

Each participant will be provided an information package - the parenting booklet from Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs) about domestic safety tips. Only this booklet serves as the anticipatory guidance to mothers about domestic safety.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Internet-based injury prevention program

An injury prevention website serves as the Internet-based intervention providing two key topics: 1) Types of domestic injury, and 2) how to prevent different types of domestic injury. The domestic injury prevention information "Home Safety Tips" is divided into four subgroups according to various safety issues relevant to infants/children's age groups. Apart from a knowledge hub, the website incorporates additional functions of feedback counselling, video demonstration, online consultation, games, safety checklist and discussion forum.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Mothers attending the antenatal clinics/staying in the postnatal wards at Kwong Wah Hospital or Queen Mary Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria

• Mothers unable to read Chinese and those without access to Internet.

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

The University of Hong Kong

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

References

Chow CB, Wong WH, Leung WC, Tang MH, Chan KL, Or CK, Li TM, Ho FK, Lo D, Ip P. Effectiveness of a Technology-Based Injury Prevention Program for Enhancing Mothers' Knowledge of Child Safety: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Oct 31;5(4):e205. doi: 10.2196/resprot.6216.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 27799138 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

08150345

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

injury prevention

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id