Incidence of fires and related injuries after giving out free smoke alarms: cluster randomised controlled trial

DiGuiseppi, Carolyn; Roberts, Ian; Wade, Angie; Sculpher, Mark; Edwards, Phil; Godward, Catherine; Pan, Huiqi; Slater, Suzanne

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7371.995

Cited by 77 publications

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“…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-sponsored Smoke Alarm Installation and Fire Safety Education program recommends the installation of lithium-battery smoke alarms with a hush feature for high-risk households (6,64). DiGuiseppi and colleagues (46) found that families who had their smoke alarm directly installed were much more likely to have a functioning alarm six months later as compared with families who received a voucher for a free smoke alarm. More recently, Gielen and colleagues reported higher rates of participation in a fire department home-visiting program when community health workers provided advanced notice to residents about the upcoming visits (56).…”

Section: Prevention Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintentional Home Injuries Across the Life Span: Problems and Solutions

Gielen¹,

McDonald²,

Shields

2015

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Home injuries cause more than 30,000 deaths and 12 million nonfatal injuries annually in the United States. They generate an estimated $222 billion in lifetime costs annually. Despite some data limitations in documenting home as the location of an injury, much progress has been made in identifying effective prevention strategies that reduce injury or mitigate risk behaviors.The current interest in public health in the role of housing in health offers unparalleled opportunities for injury prevention professionals concerned with home injuries. Sharing the science of injury prevention with the wide array of professionals-such as architects, home builders, home visitors, and fire and emergency medical services providers-who create home environments and interact with residents could be a useful approach. A collaborative national effort to reduce the burden of home injuries is needed.

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Section: Prevention Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintentional Home Injuries Across the Life Span: Problems and Solutions

Gielen¹,

McDonald²,

Shields

2015

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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“…Previous studies have identified that there are barriers to maintaining passive home safety measures (Stone et al, 2007;DiGuiseppi et al, 2002) and it is important to establish these barriers in relation to fire door installation and maintenance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Occupant interactions with self-closing fire doors in private dwellings

2010

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Prevention measures to reduce deaths and injuries due to domestic fires have included the provision of self-closing fire doors within dwellings. Such an approach however, is reliant on a behavioural response on behalf of the occupier(s). This research examined occupier behaviour in relation to self-closing fire doors. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals inhabiting a new home. In all of the properties with self-closing fire doors, the occupants reported interfering with the selfclosing mechanism of the doors. A quantitative survey was subsequently undertaken to obtain frequency data. In the majority of dwellings with fire doors occupiers reported propping these open in some way, or removing the self-closing mechanism from the door. The accounts suggest that, for fire doors to be an effective safety measure within dwellings, a greater emphasis needs to be placed on encouraging occupiers to adopt safe practices in relation to fire doors. Alternatively, other measures will need to be found to address the fire risk.

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“…DiGuiseppi et al 125 carried out a cluster-randomised controlled trial of the impact of providing free smoke alarms on the incidence of fires and related injuries in a deprived inner city population. A later trial explored variation in the prevalence of working smoke alarms by type of alarm 41 and a qualitative study was carried out to explore barriers and facilitators to the use of smoke alarms.…”

Section: Health Protection and Improvement Interventions Are Sometimementioning

confidence: 99%