Lessons learned from a community campaign on child safety in the Netherlands

A 1-year community campaign was carried out in The Netherlands to reduce home-related injuries of preschool-aged children by 20%. Because health education directed at parents of preschool-aged children was a main instrument in this campaign, several guidelines on behalf of effective health education were considered in campaign development. The...

Behavioral determinants of mothers' safety measures to prevent injuries of pre-school children.

Home-related injuries are a major threat to pre-school children in the western world. In this study the behavioral determinants of 18 parental safety measures were assessed. To select behavioral determinants, the Attitude-Social influence-Self-efficacy/barriers model was used with the inclusion of variables from the Health Belief Model and the...

Injury control in pre-school children: A review of parental safety measures and the behavioural determinants

Safety education directed at parents of pre-school children may be an important tool in reducing injuries of pre-school children at home. However, many studies on educational programmes directed at parents have shown little evidence of success in terms of changes in parental safety behaviour and childhood injuries. These programmes may have been...

Proces- en effectevaluatie van de lokale kinderveiligheidscampagne 'Nijmegen staat op veilig'

'Nijmegen staat op veilig' is de titel van een lokale veiligheidscampagne om het aantal privé-ongevallen (ongevallen met uitsluiting van verkeersongevallen) bij kinderen van 0-12 jaar terug te dringen met 20%. Verslag wordt gedaan van de procesevaluatie (dat wil zeggen opzet en uitvoering van de compagnie) en de effectevaluatie. Hierbij wordt...