TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Teaching safety at a summer camp: Evaluation of a fire safety curriculum in an urban community setting
JO  - Burns: journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
A1  - Chavez, Audrie A.
A1  - Duzinski, Sarah V.
A1  - Wheeler, Tareka C.
A1  - Lawson, Karla A.
SP  - 1172
EP  - 1178
VL  - 40
IS  - 6
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Danger Rangers Fire Safety Curriculum in increasing the fire safety knowledge of low-income, minority children in an urban community setting. METHODS: Data was collected from child participants via teacher/researcher administered pre-, post-, and retention tests. A self-administered questionnaire was collected from parents pre- and post-intervention to assess fire/burn prevention practices. Paired t-tests were conducted to compare pre-, post-, and retention test mean scores by grade group. McNemar's test was used to determine if there was a change in parent-reported prevention practices following the intervention. RESULTS: The first/second grade group and the third grade group scored significantly higher on the post- and retention test as compared to the pre-test (p<0.0001 for all comparisons). There was no significant change in scores for the pre-k/k group after the intervention. There was a significant increase in 2 of 4 parent-reported fire/burn-related prevention practices after the intervention. CONCLUSION: Fire safety knowledge improved among first to third grade children, but not among pre-kinder and kindergarten children who participated in the intervention. This study also showed that a program targeted towards children and delivered in a classroom setting has the potential to influence familial prevention practices by proxy.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0305-4179
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2013.12.006
ID  - ref1
ER  -