Collaborations in progress
The Keeping Children Safe at Home (KCS) study is a 5-year multicentre collaborative programme of research to prevent home injury in pre-school children, funded by a programme grant from the National Institute for Health Research.
It is being led by the University of Nottingham (Professor Denise Kendrick, Dr Carol Coupland, Dr Michael Watson) and collaborators include the University of the West of England (Professor Elizabeth Towner), Newcastle University (Professor Elaine McColl), Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Dr Richard Reading), Leicester University (Professor Alex Sutton and Dr Nicola Cooper), Child Accident Prevention Trust (Dr Mike Hayes), Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Ms Jane Stewart, Ms Jo Wain, Ms Rose Clacy), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (Mr Frank Coffey), and Dr Emma Pitchforth.
This study aims to improve understanding of how to prevent falls, poisoning and thermal injuries in children under 5 years in order to increase evidence based injury prevention within the NHS. The programme of work includes a number of inter-related studies. The information from these studies will be used to determine the cost effectiveness of different injury interventions. Finally, the study will develop injury prevention briefings (IPBs) for cost effective interventions and evaluate the implementation of one IPB in Children’s Centres across the UK. The study commenced in April 2009 and is funded for 5 years.
The programme comprises 14 studies addressing the following research questions, all of which relate to falls, poisoning and thermal injuries:-
Which interventions are effective in protecting against injuries?
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What are the NHS costs and costs and consequences injuries for children and families?
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What injury prevention interventions are being undertaken by Children's Centres (as part of their role in delivering child health services) to prevent injuries?
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What are the barriers and facilitators to implementing injury prevention interventions amongst Children's Centres, professionals and community members?
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How effective and cost-effective are a range of strategies for preventing injuries based on decision analytic models incorporating data generated from research questions 1-3 and systematic reviews of the published literature?
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How effective and cost-effective is implementing an Injury Prevention Briefing (IPB), developed based on the findings from the decision analysis, for one exemplar injury prevention intervention?
The findings from these studies will be used to enhance evidence-based injury prevention in the NHS. The potential impacts of this research are reductions in injury occurrence, injury inequality, health care use and its associated costs.