@article{ref1,
title="Effectiveness of nurse counselling in discouraging the use of the infant walkers",
journal="Asia-Pacific journal of public health",
year="2004",
author="Tan, N. C. and Lim, N. M. L. H. and Gu, K.",
volume="16",
number="2",
pages="104-108",
abstract="Infant walkers are widely used by caregivers in Singapore despite being recognized as a household hazard. The study determined the effectiveness of nurse counselling in dissuading caregivers from using the walker. Caregivers of children 4 months of age were recruited and divided into the intervention group (nurse's advice and illustrated pamphlets), a conventional group (questionnaire alone) and a control group (without any intervention in separate polyclinic). The percentage of the caregivers, who used the walkers in each group when their child was 9 months old, was taken as a surrogate indicator of effectiveness of nurse's intervention. The study analyzed 708 caregivers. Fewer caregivers (62.7% intervention vs. 80.4% questionnaire alone vs. 83.0% control) used the walker after nurse's advice with illustrated pamphlets. 8% of the users reported walker-related injuries (n=43). Nurses' counselling could be a simple yet effective method to discourage the use of walkers.",
language="",
issn="1010-5395",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}