Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP)

Background

Program Goals:

To reduce pedestrian injury rates among children aged 5-9 years; to design and evaluate a school- and community-based intervention that would improve children’s road-related behaviour and enhance the safety of their road environment

Intent:

Unintentional

Risk Factors Addressed:

Road-related behaviour and safety of the road environment

Place of occurrence:

Community

Age/Age Range:

Children aged 5-9 years

Other Population Characteristics:

Limitations of perceptual skills among 5-9 year-old children

Resources

Year Developed:

1995

Collaborative Organization(s):

Main Roads Western Australia
Traffic Board of Western Australia
Schools, teachers, parents 

Funding Resource(s):

Funded by the Western Australia Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway), with additional funding from the Traffic Board of Western Australia and Main Roads Western Australia

Implementation

Context/Setting

Community-based implementation

Strategies Used:

Evaluation, Education, Engineering, Enactment

Activities Used:

Project based on a modified version of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model
A quasi-experimental community intervention trial in Perth metropolitan area;
Employed a multi-faceted approach combining behavioural and environmental interventions (2 intervention groups and a comparison group);
"High Intervention Group" received both a school-based pedestrian safety education program and a community/environmental road safety intervention;
"Moderate Intervention Group" received only the school-based pedestrian safety education program while "Comparison Group" received no intervention 

Program Evaluation:

Evaluation plan included formative, process, and summative research efforts

Source of Best Practice:

Volpe, R., Lewko, J., & Battra, A. (2002). A Compendium of Effective, Evidence-Based Best Practices in Prevention of Neurotrauma. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Original Source:

Cross, D. Stevenson, M., Hall, M., Burns, S., Laughlin, D., Officer, J., & Howat, P. (2000). Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project: Student restuls. Preventive Medicine, 30, 179-187.

Supplementary Material:

N/A

Local Example(s):

N/A

Contact Information: 

Mark Stevenson, Ph.D.
Chief Investigator, Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987 Perth, Western Australia 6845
Tel: (08) 9266-7121 Fax. (08) 9266-2958
Email: mark@health.curtin.edu.au  

Outcomes

Long-term outcomes/Effectiveness:

Pedestrian safety curriculum materials were incorporated into a Kindergarten-Year 10 education program and disseminated state-wide

Short-term outcomes:

Children in 2 intervention groups were significantly more likely both to cross the road with adult supervision and to play away from the road;
Significantly greater road safety activity was observed in the high intervention group;
Volume of traffic on local roads was significantly reduced in the high intervention group, but not in the other 2 groups

Other

Date of Review:

2000

Classification:

Best Practice