Development and Evaluation of an Adult Burn Prevention Program

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01608581

Enrollment

1637

Registered

2012-05-31

Start date

2010-02-28

Completion date

2011-04-30

Last updated

2012-06-05

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Conditions

Burns

Keywords

prevention, burn, adult, health promotion, evaluation, media

Brief summary

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a targeted burn prevention message on burn safety knowledge and behavior.

Detailed description

Flammable liquid burns comprise 23% of admissions to our burn center. This was a project to test the uptake of the message Don't be a Flaming Fool delivered via multi-media campaign.

Interventions

OTHERmultimedia burn awareness campaign

Television commercials x4 delivered 86 times over 10 days plus logo in print media daily in two papers in two cities

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

16 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* male 16 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

* males less than 16 years of age * females

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Changes in burn safety knowledge at 3 months	Pre intervention, 3 months post intervention	The changes in knowledge regarding the dangers of using petrol or gasoline before and after a media campaign
Changes in burn safety knowledge at 12 months	pre-intervention and 12 months post-interevention	The changes in knowledge regarding the dangers of using petrol or gasoline before and after a media campaign

Countries

Australia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026