TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Effectiveness of nurse counselling in discouraging the use of the infant walkers
JO  - Asia-Pacific journal of public health
A1  - Tan, N. C.
A1  - Lim, N. M. L. H.
A1  - Gu, K.
SP  - 104
EP  - 108
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.
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SN  - 1010-5395
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -