Maternal Health and Wellbeing

'Keeping Children Safe at Home' Programme

Project Duration

2009 – 2014

Funder

NIHR

Project Staff

  • Prof Denise Kendrick (PI) 1
  • Dr Michael Watson (lead on two of the projects - national survey and validation study) 1

Bodies involved: Child Accident Prevention Trust, NHS, local parents to help design the study, number of universities (eg. Nottingham, Newcastle, Leicester, East Anglia, West of England)

Staff Institutions

  1. The University of Nottingham
 

Aims

The KCS programme aims to answer research questions via a series of interlinked studies. One of the final products will be tested injury prevention briefings (IPBs) for practitioners. There are 15 studies and six of them are: 

  1. Case control study of falls, scalds and poisoning injury 
  2. Validation of tools used to collect data 
  3. National Survey of Sure Start Children's Centres 
  4. A randomised controlled trial of the IPB on fire related injuries 
  5. Qualitative study of Children centre managers 
  6. Quantitative and qualitative systematic review

Methods

A series of interlinked studies.

Stage of Development

This is a current project.

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Project Website

www.nottingham.ac.uk/injury
research/projects/kcs/

Contact for further information

Michael Watson

 

 

 

Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group

The University of Nottingham
School of Health Sciences
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA


telephone: +44 (0)115 823 0820
email: helen.spiby@nottingham.ac.uk