Health Education Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, 47-56, 1998
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Injury prevention training: is it effective
Departments of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Cllfton Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
1General Practice, University of Nottingham Cllfton Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
The aim of this controlled follow-up study was to assess the effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary training programme in increasing knowledge, changing attitudes and practice in injury prevention amongst primary health care professionals. All primary health care team members in Nottinghamshire were invited to participate in the training programme. Thirty-one health visitors, 11 general practitioners and 16 practice nurses attended the training programme, and completed the study questionnaire 3–4 months before and after the training. A comparison was made with a professional of the same status, who had not attended the training session who had also completed both questionnaires, and who was matched with a trained participant on the basis of pre-training attitude and knowledge scores (to within 1 point of each score). A significant increase in the number of individuals answering correctly to questions on accidental injury epidemiology was demonstrated in the trained group (Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank, health visitors P = 0.002, practice nurses P = 0.0004, general practitioners P = 0.02), but no significant change was demonstrated in the control group. Changes in attitude scores were only significant for the practice nurses (Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank, P = 0.01). Increases were also demonstrated in the frequency of health visitors identifying hazards on home visits and discussing them with parents (
2 = 6.19, d.f. = 2, P = 0.04) and in the number of health visitors who, on receiving notification of a child attending the A department following an injury, carried out a home visit to discuss injury prevention (2 = 9.19, d.f. = 2, P = 0.01). The number of general practitioners displaying posters in the surgery waiting rooms also increased significantly (2 = 9.21, d.f. = 2, P = 0.002). The number of contacts with representatives of other agencies and individuals concerning child safety significantly increased in the trained group (Wilcoxon matched-pairs, P = 0.02). We conclude that education and training with regard to injury prevention was effective in increasing knowledge and some injury prevention practices. Although training did not appear to change the attitudes of health visitors and general practitioners to a significant extent, a marked change was unlikely due to high baseline attitude scores.
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