Child Accident Prevention Trust Research Articles

Minor injuries and ailments. 6: Ingestion of foreign bodies and choking

When a child is exposed to a substance that is harmful to their health, this is considered poisoning ( NHS Choices, 2016a ). Most poisoning incidents involve medicines, household products and cosmetics, and occur in the home, predominantly affecting children under the age of 5 years ( Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA), 2016a ; NHS Choices, 2016a ). Every day, around 15 young children are admitted to hospital because they have swallowed something poisonous ( Child Accident Prevention Trust, 2016a ), and around 28 000 children receive treatment each year for poisoning or suspected poisoning ( ROSPA, 2016a ). Poisonings can cause serious long-term effects on a child's health and can also result in death. This article will focus on managing and treating the ingestion of foreign bodies and choking in children at home; when parents should be advised to attend A&E; and when to call an ambulance.

Minor injuries and ailments. 3: Burns and scalds

Around 95% of all childhood burns and scalds happen at home and most occur during day-to-day situations that many parents do not anticipate, such as children reaching for hot coffee or stepping on hair straighteners ( Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), 2016 ). This article will focus on managing and treating burns and scalds in children at home; when parents should be advised to attend A&E; and when to call an ambulance.

Research roundup: April 2014

Journal of Health VisitingVol. 2, No. 4 Research RoundupResearch roundup: April 2014Annie JenkinsAnnie JenkinsSearch for more papers by this authorAnnie JenkinsPublished Online:14 Apr 2014https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2014.2.4.227AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View articleReferencesWatson MC, Mulvaney CA, Kendrick Det al. (2014) National survey of the injury prevention activities of children's centres. Health Soc Care Community 22(1): 40–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12059 Crossref, Google ScholarAndré M, Hedin K, Håkansson A, Mölstad S, Rodhe N, Petersson C (2007) More physician consultations and antibiotic prescriptions in families with high concern about infectious illness—adequate response to infection-prone child or self-fulfilling prophecy? Fam Pract 24(4): 302–7 Crossref, Google ScholarBritish Medical Association (2001) Injury prevention. http://tinyurl.com/BMAinjprevent (accessed 31 March 2014) Google ScholarChild Accident Prevention Trust (2003) Preventing Childhood Accidents: Guidance on Effective Action. Child Accident Prevention Trust, London Google ScholarDepartment for Children, Schools and Families (2009) Accident Prevention Amongst Children and Young People: A Priority Review. Department for Children, Schools and Families, London Google ScholarDepartment of Health (1993) The Health of the Nation: Key Area Handbook—Accidents. Department of Health, London Google ScholarMcConnachie A, Wilson P, Thomson Het al. (2004) Modelling consultation rates in infancy: influence of maternal and infant characteristics, feeding type and consultation history. Br J Gen Pract 54(505): 598–603 Google ScholarWalter K (2010) Re-valuation of home accidents. PPR 483. IHS, Bracknell Google ScholarWorld Health Organization (1978) Declaration of Alma-Ata. World Health Organization, Geneva Google ScholarWorld Health Organization (1986) The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. World Health Organization, Copenhagen Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 April 2014Volume 2Issue 4ISSN (print): 2050-8719ISSN (online): 2052-2908 Metrics History Published online 14 April 2014 Published in print 1 April 2014 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Accidents and Child Development from Child Accident Prevention Trust

Accidents and Child Development from Child Accident Prevention Trust

Webwise.

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is the UK's leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents. Its aim is to see children leading active, healthy lives - not 'wrapped in cotton wool'.

‘ The message of child safety week is that accidents happen in seconds but the effects can last a lifetime ’

The older you get, the more you understand that one moment can change everything, for good or ill. The moment all your numbers come up on the lottery or the moment you tip boiling water over yourself in the kitchen: these are life changing events, done in a flash but certain to turn your world upside down. Understanding the downside of this principle only too well, the Child Accident Prevention Trust has chosen the slogan ‘one moment can change everything’ as the theme for next week’s child safety week, with the message that accidents happen in seconds but the effects can last a lifetime.

Stop accidents that can kill our children

Every setting should have its own procedures which outline the safety standards expected. The Child Accident Prevention Trust offers some advice.

Action on Injury—a stepping off point for the UK

How to measure the success or failure of a conference is always problematic. One crude but perhaps encouraging aspect of the Action on Injury Conference held in London in November...

Child safety on farms in Northern Ireland

Farm related accidents are the third greatest cause of child accident fatalities in Northern Ireland after road traffic accidents and house fires, which is not surprising given the rural nature...

Child Accident Prevention Trust in Northern Ireland.

Child Accident Prevention Trust in Northern Ireland.

High levels of incorrect use of car seat belts and child restraints in Fife--an important and under-recognised road safety issue.

OBJECTIVE: To pilot data collection instruments and to make a preliminary estimate of the level of incorrect use of car seat belts and child restraints in Fife, Scotland. DESIGN: Cross...

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (UK).

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is a voluntary organisation and charity, established by paediatricians in the UK in 1981, to investigate the causes and prevention of accidents to children in the UK. It has well-qualified staff members and consultants, and receives core funding from the Department of Health. It combines an appreciation of developing children with an understanding of the value of research. When a project is funded, a voluntary working group is established to give advice and support. An essential part of CAPT's work is research and the dissemination and promotion of research results to those who are most likely to be able to act on them. Publications include technical reports, for example on in-car safety and low-cost cycle helmets. There is an exceptional research library, and a quarterly newsletter. Current research includes studies of the economic costs of accidents to health and local authorities, the social costs to families and society as a whole, and the emotional effects of injuries on children and their families. CAPT's in-car safety programme First Ride, Safe included promotion by midwives and health visitors of the use of rear-facing infant restraints. Every Ride a Safe is aimed at those who can advise on in-car safety.

Accident prevention--injury control--injury prevention--or whatever?

The launch of a new international Journal on injury prevention offers a unique opportunity to open up a debate on terminology. Over the last 30 years or so there has emerged a number of terms which bear may not be compatible. In North America there now seem there now appears to be a strong consensus on the use of the term injury In the UK the Royal Society for the prevention of accidents and others have kept the term accident prevention more info. The term has been upheld more recently with the setting up of the Child Accident Prevention Trust in 1979, and with the UK governments Department of Health Health of the Nation Key Areas Policy on Accidents. The term accident is also used by the World Health Organization in many parts of Europe and in several other parts of the English-speaking word. There are good reasons for getting some standard terminology agreed and for this to become established practice. Firstly there is a need for consistency. Secondly there is a need for those working in the field to understand what they mean and what everyone else means. Thirdly there's a need for the public to understand, although this may not be so important for body good we can get the message across effectively. Do initiate this debate I have outlined some definitions for the terms used regularly by most people working in the field. These terms are: accident prevention; Injury control; injury prevention; and safety.... Given these concepts it now becomes clear that a phrase that adequately covers all of these activities isaccident prevention and injury control. But perhaps we should not become too obsessed with terminology anyway. What is really important is to concentrate on the key issue which is, whenever possible, to prevent the accident. And, if we cannot prevent the accident then we must do our best to minimize its consequences, not only by means of the various forms of secondary prevention, but also by ensuring that the emergency and immediate care services and the follow-up and rehabilitation are of the highest order. Whatever we call it, accident prevention and injury control has clearly come of age and is here to stay. It has an enormously important contribution to make to the health and well-being of everyone. It merits elevation to the highest status in the most serious attention by everyone in healthcare. (term-accident-vs-injury)

News

Shopping list: Nina Sakjarvi-Stenham (left) and Coco Leuong join Parkside Health Visitor Angie Glew (centre) outside a North London branch of Tesco to highlight the first ever Child Safety Week. Health Visitors and firemen demonstrated to shoppers how parents can make sure their children avoid bums and scalds, while health visitors and road safety officers visited branches of Mothercare last week to give travel safety advice. The Child Accident Prevention Trust says three children the every day as a result of accidents, which is the major cause of death in the under-14s. More than 10,000 children are permanently disabled by accidents every year.

Manifesto for safe communities

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 154, Issue 5 p. 302-303 Leading Article Manifesto for safe communities Douglas Cohen, Douglas Cohen Child Accident Prevention Trust, LondonSearch for more papers by this author Douglas Cohen, Douglas Cohen Child Accident Prevention Trust, LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 March 1991 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb112876.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume154, Issue5March 1991Pages 302-303 RelatedInformation

Child Accident Prevention Trust reports on child poisoning rate

Child Accident Prevention Trust reports on child poisoning rate

Preventing accidental deaths in children.

Statistics showing accidents are the most common cause of death among children have prompted the Child Accident Prevention Trust to produce an accident prevention guide.

Preventing accidents to pre-school children: A health visitor's view

'Prevention' and 'safety' suffer from a major handicap: they are undramatic and, often downright boring. Compare this with the drama of an accident which is often horrifying or tragic, but which is at least interesting and usually newsworthy. Another disadvantage suffered by the concepts of prevention and safety is that the solutions so often seem obvious and just common sense, so that safety advice is unremarkable and therefore often goes unheeded. These are major problems for us, as health workers trying to get across the safety message, so accidents continue to happen most tragically when some simple action could have prevented them. Accidents are the largest single cause of death in childhood after the age of one in the western world today. In the UK, road traffic accidents form the largest single group of deaths, but home accidents far outnumber those on the road in terms of non-fatal accidents. We cannot, however, lump all children together as far as accidents are concerned. Children have different types of accidents at different stages of development: at one, two and three years, children suffer falls, scalds and poisonings; at five and six they have accidents while playing and on the road; and adolescents tend to have accidents while doing some adventurous activity, like climbing, or while riding motorbikes. We have particular problems with children and accidents for a number of reasons, all of which have a strong bearing on the direction our advice should take: children are naturally inquisitive and need to explore, and consequently appear to misuse articles; neither are they able to anticipate danger and indeed often seem quite fearless. While jumping off a high wall into Dad's arms can be safe and fun; jumping off that same wall on to a concrete path is quite another matter. The aims of safety education should be: (1) To change attitudes towards safety. (2) To increase knowledge of accidents and their prevention. (3) To encourage changes in behaviour which will lead to a safer environment, in turn reducing accident mortality and morbidity. (4) Safety education must be seen as a long term approach to the accident problem. These theoretical points, however, are likely to remain just that unless we examine the attitudes and beliefs that people hold about accidents and their prevention. In this, l am indebted to Pam Laidman whose research on preventing accidents to children, for the Child Accident Prevention Trust has recently been launched by the HEA. An accident has been defined by the WHO l as 'an event unpremeditated by man which results in recognisable damage'. Thus, it could be argued that an accident is something impossible to guard against; the notion of randomness and unpredicability puts it beyond control. There is also a strong sense of the existence of a protective aura, as instanced in the feeling that 'it could not happen to me or to my child'. If an accident subsequently occurs, the parents often have tremendous guilt to deal with, needing support from people like ourselves rather than blame.

The work of the Child Accident Prevention Trust.

In 1983 an article was published in this Journal describing the work of the Child Accident Prevention Trust. Since that time many developments have taken place in the field of child accident prevention. There has been an increased recognition of the role of accidents and injuries in child health and the importance of accident prevention at an international, national, and local level. This has, in part, been a result of work undertaken by the Child Accident Prevention Trust. Much remains to be done, however, and doctors and other health workers involved with children must recognise the part that they can play in reducing this epidemic. Mortality and morbidity from accidents is the largest single problem in the health of children after the first year of life. The aim of this article is to stimulate interest in the problem of accidents in childhood especially among community paediatricians and clinical medical officers. Hospital doctors and general practitioners also have a particular part to play in drawing the attention of appropriate authorities to factors which have led to accidents that may have been preventable (see Annotation in this issue).

Book Reviews : Burn and Scald Accidents to Children. Published by Child Accident Prevention Trust, 1985. Price: £3.95. Paperback. Pp. 54. ISBN: 0 7199 1160 5

Book Reviews : Burn and Scald Accidents to Children. Published by Child Accident Prevention Trust, 1985. Price: £3.95. Paperback. Pp. 54. ISBN: 0 7199 1160 5