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Citation

Ploubidis GB, Edwards P, Kendrick D. BMC Res. Notes 2015; 8(1): e789.

Affiliation

Division of Primary Care, School of Medicine, Tower Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. D.Kendrick@nottingham.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/s13104-015-1769-5

PMID

26670153

PMCID

PMC4678525

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This paper reports the development and testing of a construct measuring parental fire safety behaviours for planning escape from a house fire.

METHODS: Latent variable modelling of data on parental-reported fire safety behaviours and plans for escaping from a house fire and multivariable logistic regression to quantify the association between groups defined by the latent variable modelling and parental-report of having a plan for escaping from a house fire. Data comes from 1112 participants in a cluster randomised controlled trial set in children's centres in 4 study centres in the UK.

RESULTS: A two class model provided the best fit to the data, combining responses to five fire safety planning behaviours. The first group ('more behaviours for escaping from a house fire') comprised 86 % of participants who were most likely to have a torch, be aware of how their smoke alarm sounds, to have external door and window keys accessible, and exits clear. The second group ('fewer behaviours for escaping from a house fire') comprised 14 % of participants who were less likely to report these five behaviours. After adjusting for potential confounders, participants allocated to the 'more behaviours for escaping from a house fire group were 2.5 times more likely to report having an escape plan (OR 2.48; 95 % CI 1.59-3.86) than those in the "fewer behaviours for escaping from a house fire" group.

CONCLUSIONS: Multiple fire safety behaviour questions can be combined into a single binary summary measure of fire safety behaviours for escaping from a house fire. Our findings will be useful to future studies wishing to use a single measure of fire safety planning behaviour as measures of outcome or exposure. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT 01452191. Date of registration 13/10/2011.


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