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Emergency Department Brief Intervention to Increase Carbon Monoxide Detector Use

NCT00959478 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2014-01-30

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Summary

Carbon Monoxide (CO) exposure kills and injures thousands of children and families each year. Although there is growing concern about the need to increase carbon monoxide detector use, little is known about how best to do so, especially for low-income families. The objective of this research is to determine whether a brief intervention, Project Carbon Monoxide Detector Education (Project CODE), will increase CO detector use. For this study, parents of children, 18 years or younger, will be randomly assigned to receive Project CODE (an educational tool and a CO detector) or usual care (a flyer on CO poisoning); both of which will be delivered in the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) examination rooms. The use of a CO detector and the participant's current stage in the theory of stage-based behavior change-the Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM), will be assessed at enrollment and then again at the home visits which will occur two-weeks and six-months following the PED visit. The investigators hypothesize that parents receiving Project CODE will have working CO detectors and will be further along in the PAPM than parents in the control group at the two-week and six-month home visits. The long term goal of this research is to reduce the number of injuries and deaths from CO poisoning.

Conditions

  • Intervention-carbon Monoxide Alarm + Educational Tool
  • Control- Usual Care Flyer on Carbon Monoxide

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Tool & Carbon Monoxide Alarm

Based on the recommendations from the expert panel and focus group meetings, Fast Facts about Carbon Monoxide was developed to be an educational tool aimed at helping parents understand the dangers of CO and the need CO alarms in every home. In addition, this tool will help parents select and purchase the correct CO alarm, as well as properly install and maintain the alarm in their home. Each parent assigned to the intervention group will be given a Fast Facts about Carbon Monoxide educational tool and a Kidde Nighthawk Carbon Monoxide Alarm at enrollment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lara McKenzie

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lara B. McKenzie, PhD · Center for Inury Research and Policy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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