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Secondary Prevention of Childhood Firesetting
- Source :
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 33:1194-1202
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1994.
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Abstract
- Objective The Juvenile Fire Awareness and Intervention Program was established to develop and evaluate an intervention to be offered by fire fighters for children who set fires. Method One hundred thirty-eight children, aged 5 to 16 years, with a history of firesetting participated in a randomized, controlled trial. The intervention involved education about fire safety and a behavior modification program designed to extinguish the desire to set fires through satiation. The frequency and severity of firesetting were recorded for 12 months after the intervention to measure outcome. Results There was a significant decrease in the frequency and severity of firesetting across all groups, with no additional improvement resulting from participation in the fire fighters' intervention. Conclusions There is no evidence to suggest that the multicomponent program offered by trained fire fighters is effective in reducing firesetting. The marked reduction in firesetting across all groups suggests that fire safety education by the fire fighters is the most appropriate approach to this serious community problem.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Poison control
Satiation
Personality Assessment
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
law.invention
Randomized controlled trial
Behavior Therapy
law
Intervention (counseling)
Injury prevention
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Child
Psychiatry
Behavior change
Arson
Psychiatry and Mental health
Firesetting Behavior
Child, Preschool
Female
Safety
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08908567
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f3ab384946e5ebd9a5a670e360df902e