TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The Stamp-in-Safety Program: A Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Behaviors that Can Lead to Unintentional Playground Injury in a Preschool Setting
JO  - Journal of pediatric psychology
A1  - Schwebel, David C.
A1  - Summerlin, Adam L.
A1  - Bounds, Marjorie L.
A1  - Morrongiello, Barbara A.
SP  - 152
EP  - 162
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To introduce and evaluate the Stamp-in-Safety program, a behavioral intervention designed to increase the quality of supervision by teachers on preschool playgrounds and to reduce the risk of unintentional child playground injury. METHODS: A quasi-experimental time series design was used, with observational techniques, to evaluate behavior on the playground before, during, and after the intervention as well as during a 6-month post-intervention assessment. RESULTS: Both applied behavior analysis techniques and inferential statistics suggest that the Stamp-in-Safety program resulted in behavioral changes likely to reduce the risk of child injury on the playgrounds of childcare centers. CONCLUSION: Results indicate promise for the Stamp-in-Safety program as a low-cost, easily implemented intervention to reduce pediatric playground injury risk at childcare centers. Suggestions for future research are offered.
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SN  - 0146-8693
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsj001
ID  - ref1
ER  -