Teaching severely self-abusive and aggressive autistic residents to exit to fire alarms

Israel, Matthias; Connolly, Daniel J.; Heyn, Robert E. von; Rock, J. M.; Smith, Pamela W.

doi:10.1016/0005-7916(93)90059-6

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“…Educational Interventions: The majority of included studies (n = 23, 29.1%) adopted educational interventions mainly related to smoke alarms installation and maintenance, fire escape plan development, and fire guard utilization [1,14,15,20,25,31,35,36,39,47] (Figure 2). Educational materials (brochures, pamphlets, or posts on social media platforms) were disseminated through door-to-door fire safety campaigns, community safety programs and child healthcare counselling at schools, nursing homes, clinics, and medical centres [9,50,51] aimed to enhance individual knowledge and fire safety skills, behaviours, and practices acquisition, and ultimately to prevent residential fire and associated injuries [15,20,25,29,31,32,38,39,47,48,[51][52][53]. These interventions mainly targeted at-risk groups within vulnerable neighbourhoods including parents of young children, elderly, and low socio-economic households [25,29,31,32,39,47,48,51,[54][55][56].…”

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“…Educational materials (brochures, pamphlets, or posts on social media platforms) were disseminated through door-to-door fire safety campaigns, community safety programs and child healthcare counselling at schools, nursing homes, clinics, and medical centres [9,50,51] aimed to enhance individual knowledge and fire safety skills, behaviours, and practices acquisition, and ultimately to prevent residential fire and associated injuries [15,20,25,29,31,32,38,39,47,48,[51][52][53]. These interventions mainly targeted at-risk groups within vulnerable neighbourhoods including parents of young children, elderly, and low socio-economic households [25,29,31,32,39,47,48,51,[54][55][56]. Some studies recruited healthcare workers, firefighters, community leaders, and volunteers to support educa-tional intervention implementation [43] and foster fire safety skills and attitudes among youth [29,52] through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).…”

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Interventions for Preventing Residential Fires in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods and Indigenous Communities: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Al-Hajj

Desapriya

Pawliuk

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Globally, residential fires constitute a substantial public health problem, causing major fire-related injury morbidity and mortality. This review examined the literature on residential fire prevention interventions relevant to Indigenous communities and assessed their effectiveness on mitigating fire incidents and their associated human and economic burden. Electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, and Web of Science Core Collection were reviewed for studies on fire prevention interventions published after 1990 and based on the 4E’s of injury prevention approaches (Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Engagement). The grey literature and sources including indigenous organizational websites were also searched for eligible studies. Two authors independently screened, selected, and extracted data, in consultation with experts in the field. Outcomes measured included enhanced safety knowledge and practices, decreased residential fires incidents, reduced fire-related injuries and deaths, and lowered costs for healthcare needs. After removing duplicates, screening titles and abstracts, and assessing full texts, 81 articles were included in this review. Of the included studies, 29.1% implemented educational interventions within a variety of settings, including schools, community centres and homes, and included healthcare professionals and firefighters to raise awareness and the acquisition of fire safety skills. Engineering and environmental modifications were adopted in 20.2% of the studies with increased smoke alarm installations being the leading effective intervention followed by sprinkler inspections. Moreover, engagement of household members in hands-on safety training proved to be effective in enhancing household knowledge, fire safety decisions and practices. More importantly, effective outcomes were obtained when multi-faceted fire safety interventions were adopted, e.g., environmental modification and educational interventions, which together markedly reduced fire incidents and associated injuries. This review reveals the dearth of fire prevention evidence gathered directly within Indigenous communities. Nonetheless, relevant fire prevention recommendations can be made, calling for the adoption of combined and context-sensitive fire prevention interventions tailored to targeted Indigenous and vulnerable communities through multiple approaches and measures. Follow-ups and longitudinal studies are critical for accurate evaluation of the long-term outcomes and impacts on preventing residential fires.

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