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Child Passenger Safety: CDC Activities
Program
Activities
- A Boost for Children Ages 4 to 8
NCIPC funded state health departments in Colorado, Kentucky, and New York to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based programs to increase booster seat use among children ages 4 to 8. Between 2000-2003, grantees implemented and evaluated community awareness campaigns and school-based programs, aired public service announcements, posted billboards, and conducted booster seat distribution events and car seat checkpoints. Evaluation data from Colorado showed a significant increase in booster seat usage in target communities when compared with control communities. Evaluation activities continue in New York and Kentucky. Results from these intervention evaluations will help guide future efforts to increase booster seat use.
For more information about the booster seat programs, contact:
Sallie Thoreson (Colorado)
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
(970) 248-7161
Sallie.Thoreson@state.co.us
Robert McCool (Kentucky)
State Injury Prevention Program
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
(859) 257-6741
rmccool@pop.uky.edu
Debra Douglass (New York)
New York State Department of Health
(518) 473-1143,
djd04@health.state.ny.us
- Kids in the Back/ Niños Atrás
CDC’s Injury Center funded the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health to develop, implement, and evaluate the “Kids in the Back/Niños Atrás” program in a low-income Hispanic community. This three-year, community-based intervention was designed to increase the number of children 12 and younger who ride properly restrained in the back seat of motor vehicles, the safest place for them. Project investigators organized a community task force, developed educational materials for parents and children in English and Spanish, implemented an incentive program to further motivate parents and children to adopt this behavior, coordinated 25 community events and safety seat checkpoints and a public information campaign targeting parents and caregivers of children. Researchers conducted pre- and post-intervention observational surveys of restraint use and seating position among children ages 12 years and younger in the intervention and two control communities. During the intervention period, the percentage of children in the intervention community who were observed riding in the back seat increased from 33% to 49%.
For more information about Kids in the Back/Niños Atrás, contact:
Jennifer Greenberg-Seth, MS, Director
Kids in the Back/Niños Atrás
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
(617) 432-6586
jgreenbe@hsph.harvard.edu
Research
Activities
- Learning to Effectively Increase Booster Seat Use
CDC is funding two new investigators and an injury research center to evaluate interventions aimed at increasing booster seat use. Results will be used to inform intervention design for community-based and state-wide programs.
- Researchers at Indiana University will evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions designed to increase booster seat use among children ages 4 to 6 years. Parents and children in the first intervention group will receive education and an incentive, while those in the second group will receive education and a free booster seat. Both will be contrasted with a control group.
- In addition to evaluating an
ongoing community-based intervention, investigators at the University of Washington are conducting research to better understand the barriers to booster seat use, and parent and child behavioral factors that influence consistent use.
A web-based counseling tool on child passenger safety will be pilot tested.
- The Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas will evaluate a community-based intervention to increase child safety seat and booster seat use in a low-income, primarily Hispanic and African-American population. Use in intervention communities that receive education and child safety or booster seats will be compared with similar communities
and the city of Dallas.
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