Authors/study design (quality)/country | Program name and comparator | Age of children (topic) | Delivered by | Intensity/frequency of intervention | Other key elements of intervention | Sample N/n in follow-up (follow-up period) | Outcome measures |
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| ‘Citizenship Safety Project’—program to increase injury prevention knowledge in children (no comparison group) |
| Peer-educators in school | A number of 30-min lessons | NA |
| Knowledge |
| ‘Injury Minimisation Program for Schools’—injury risk awareness program for children (vs no intervention) |
| Teachers in school | Delivered within a 5-month period | Hospital visit to learn basic life support skills |
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| Untitled—peer-driven injury prevention program for high-risk adolescents (vs no intervention) |
| Peer-educators in school | Presentations in a number of sessions totalling 6 h |
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| Untitled—reducing playground risk behaviour through classroom-based safety training (no comparison group) |
| External trainer in school | One classroom visit every day for five consecutive days | NA |
| Behaviour |
| ‘Safe Play on Playgrounds’—poster-based injury prevention program for children (vs no intervention) |
| Research assistants in school | Two consecutive exercises to asses changes in risk-taking intentions (unspecified timing). | Children created a radio advertisement about safe playground behaviour |
| Attitudes |
| Untitled—injury prevention curricula for use in elementary schools (vs no intervention) |
| Teachers in school | 30–45 min lessons delivered over the course of 18 or 27 weeks |
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| Think First for Kids—brain and spinal cord injury prevention program for children (vs no intervention) |
| Teachers in school | Six lessons within 6 weeks |
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| Untitled—swimming lessons and water safety instruction (vs no intervention and 8 weeks of swimming lessons and water safety instruction) |
| Swimming instructors (during swimming lessons at a swimming pool) | 12 weeks of twice-weekly lessons | NA |
| Behaviour |
| Untitled—parental education program addressing parental misconceptions of toddler safety (no comparison group) |
| Unknown in professional swim school | Parents ‘provided with resources on toddler water safety’ over 10 weeks |
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Oral presentation+promotional materials | |||||||
| Untitled—changing water safety knowledge and attitudes through a mandatory schooling intervention (vs no intervention) |
| Health professionals in school | 1 full day | Water safety promotional materials |
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| Untitled—establishing safe behaviours early on through education about spinal cord injury prevention (vs no intervention) |
| Teachers in school | Up to and including three lessons within a 7-week window | NA |
| Knowledge |
| Risk Watch—injury prevention program (vs no intervention) |
| Teachers in school | NR | NA |
| Knowledge |
| ‘Progressive Farmer Farm Safety Day Camp’—farm safety program for children (no comparison group) |
| Farm safety camp teachers at a farm safety camp | 1 full day | NA |
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| ‘Children's Village’—children's safety village designed to raise awareness of safety issues (no comparison group) |
| School teachers and others in a purpose-built children's village | 2 full days |
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| Think First for Kids—brain and spinal cord injury prevention program for children (no comparison group) |
| Trained volunteer presenters in school | 30-min lessons per week for 6 consecutive weeks | NA |
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| ‘Think First’—brain and spinal cord injury prevention program (vs no intervention) |
| Trained volunteer presenters in school | 1 day | Presentation by a person who had sustained a brain or spinal cord injury |
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| Untitled—parental education program addressing parents' safety awareness and preventive actions (vs no intervention) |
| Unknown in children's orthopaedic outpatients clinic | 20-min video and pamphlet | NA |
| Behaviour |
| Untitled—‘risk-taking’ poster exercise and video showing moderate- and high-risk playground behaviour (vs risk-taking poster exercise) |
| Research assistants in school | NR—maximum of two video viewings in 1 day | NA |
| Attitudes |
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| ‘Waco Traffic Safety District Helmet Promotion’—campaign to increase children's helmet use (no comparison group) |
| School teachers and others in the community | A number and range of presentations over a 2-year period |
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| Untitled—a safety fair designed to improve children's knowledge of and attitudes towards injury prevention (no comparison group) |
| Various in the community | 1 full day |
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| ‘Stay on Top of It’—media drowning prevention campaign (no comparison group) |
| Various in the community | 3 years of multi-media campaign | NA |
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| Untitled—a campaign to increase both Personal Flotation Device usage and safe boating practices in general (no comparison group) |
| Various in the community | 3 years of multi-media campaign | Lifejacket loan scheme |
| Equipment use |
| ‘Capodanno Senza Danno’ (‘New Year's Without Harm’)—fireworks-related injury reduction campaign (no comparison group) |
| Various in the community | NR | Street cleaners cleared streets of unexploded fireworks on the morning following traditional New Year celebrations. |
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* “n remained almost constant at post-test and follow-up.”19
† Sample size is taken from outcome measurements, as baseline data were not reported by the authors.
(++), all or most of the quality criteria have been fulfilled; (+), some of the quality criteria have been fulfilled, but where this is judged as being unlikely to alter the study's conclusions; (−), few or none of the quality criteria have been fulfilled. BA, before and after study (with no control group); CBA, controlled before and after study; cRCT, cluster RCT; NA, not applicable; NR, not reported; RCT, randomised controlled trial.