1. Injury prevention counselling to improve safety practices by parents in Mexico
- Author
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Mock Charles, Arreola-Risa Carlos, Trevino-Perez Rodolfo, Almazan-Saavedra Victoria, Zozaya-Paz Jaime E., Gonzalez-Solis Reynaldo, Simpson Kate, Rodriguez-Romo Laura, and Hernandez-Torre Martin H.
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Wounds and injuries/prevention and control ,Safety ,Counseling ,Parents ,Parent-child relations ,Child behavior ,Health education/methods ,Socioeconomic factors ,Pilot projects ,Mexico ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of educational counselling programmes aimed at increasing parents' practice of childhood safety in Monterrey, Mexico, and to provide information aimed at helping to improve the effectiveness of future efforts in this field. METHODS: Three different counselling programmes were designed to meet the needs of the upper, middle and lower socioeconomic strata. Evaluation involved the use of baseline questionnaires on parents' existing safety-related practices for intervention and control groups and the administration of corresponding questionnaires after the programmes had been carried out. FINDINGS: Data were obtained on 1124 children before counselling took place and on 625 after it had been given. Overall safety scores (% safe responses) increased from 54% and 65% for the lower and upper socioeconomic strata, respectively, before counselling to 62% and 73% after counselling (P
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- 2003