Outputs (14)

Child injury prevention: a survey of local authorities and health boards (2017)
Journal Article
Chisholm, A., Watson, M. C., Jones, S. J., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Child injury prevention: a survey of local authorities and health boards. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 55(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2017.1312479

Aims: Unintentional home injuries are a significant global public health issue and are a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Within each country, injuries disproportionately affect children from low income families. Recent guidance issued in the... Read More about Child injury prevention: a survey of local authorities and health boards.

Evaluating implementation of a fire-prevention injury prevention briefing in children's centres: cluster randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
Deave, T., Hawkins, A., Kumar, A., Hayes, M., Cooper, N., Watson, M., Ablewhite, J., Coupland, C., Sutton, A., Majsak-Newman, G., McDaid, L., Goodenough, T., Beckett, K., McColl, E., Reading, R., & Kendrick, D. (2017). Evaluating implementation of a fire-prevention injury prevention briefing in children's centres: cluster randomised controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 12(3), Article e0172584. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172584

Background: Many developed countries have high mortality rates for fire-related deaths in children aged 0–14 years with steep social gradients. Evidence-based interventions to promote fire safety practices exist, but the impact of implementing a rang... Read More about Evaluating implementation of a fire-prevention injury prevention briefing in children's centres: cluster randomised controlled trial.

Modifiable risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a multi-centre case–control study (2016)
Journal Article
Stewart, J., Benford, P., Wynn, P., Watson, M. C., Coupland, C., Deave, T., Hindmarch, P., Majsak-Newman, G., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Modifiable risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a multi-centre case–control study. Burns, 42(8), 1831-1843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2016.06.027

Objective: To determine the relationship between a range of modifiable risk factors and medically attended scalds in children under the age of 5 years.
Methods: Multicentre matched case-control study in acute hospitals, minor injury units and GP pr... Read More about Modifiable risk factors for scald injury in children under 5 years of age: a multi-centre case–control study.

Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres (2016)
Journal Article
Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., Timblin, C., Stewart, J., Coupland, C., Deave, T., Hayes, M., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres. Health Education Journal, 75(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916629816

Objective: To ascertain the activities undertaken by children’s centres to prevent unintentional injuries in the under-fives and, in particular, the prevention of falls, poisoning and scalds.
Design: A questionnaire was posted to managers of 851 chi... Read More about Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres.

Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists (2015)
Journal Article
Mulvaney, C. A., Smith, S., Watson, M. C., Parkin, J., Coupland, C., Miller, P., Kendrick, D., & McClintock, H. (2015). Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD010415.pub2

Background: Cycling is an attractive form of transport. It is beneficial to the individual as a form of physical activity that may fit more readily into an individual’s daily routine, such as for cycling to work and to the shops, than other physical... Read More about Cycling infrastructure for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists.

Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Zou, K., Ablewhite, J., Watson, M., Coupland, C., Kay, B., Hawkins, A., & Reading, R. (2016). Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101(10), 909-916. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308486

Aim: To investigate risk and protective factors for stair falls in children aged <5 years.

Methods: Multicentre case–control study at hospitals, minor injury units and general practices in and around four UK study centres. Cases were children with...

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study (2015)
Journal Article
Benford, P., Young, B., Coupland, C., Watson, M., Hindmarch, P., Hayes, M., Goodenough, T., Majsak-Newman, G., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study. Injury Prevention, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041581

Background: Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is a lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health services.

Objective: To estimate o... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study.

Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years (2015)
Journal Article
Ablewhite, J., McDaid, L., Hawkins, A., Peel, I., Goodenough, T., Deave, T., Stewart, J., Watson, M., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years. BMC Public Health, 15(983), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2252-x

BACKGROUND: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Many unintentional injuries experienced by children aged under 5years occur within the home and are preventable. The aim of this study was to explore the approa... Read More about Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years.

Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Drummond, A. E., Logan, P., Barnes, J., & Worthington, E. (2015). Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries. Journal of Transport and Health, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2015.06.002

Each year more than 6,000 people are injured on public buses in the UK, approximately half of whom are aged 65 or over. This review synthesises the published literature on the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring in older people using pub... Read More about Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries.

Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study (2014)
Journal Article
Kendrick, D., Maula, A., & Reading, R. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study. JAMA Pediatrics, 169(2), 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2374

Importance: Falls from furniture are common in young children but there is little evidence on protective factors for these falls.

Objective: To estimate associations for risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in children aged 0 to 4... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls from furniture in young children: multicenter case-control study.