• Audrie A Chavez, Sarah V Duzinski, Tareka C Wheeler, and Karla A Lawson.
• University of Texas School of Public Health - Austin Campus, 1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300, Austin, TX 78701, USA. Electronic address: Audrie.A.Chavez@uth.tmc.edu.
• Burns. 2014 Sep 1; 40 (6): 1172-8.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of the Danger Rangers Fire Safety Curriculum in increasing the fire safety knowledge of low-income, minority children in an urban community setting.MethodsData was collected from child participants via teacher/researcher administered pre-, post-, and retention tests. A self-administered questionnaire was collected from parents pre- and post-intervention to assess fire/burn prevention practices. Paired t-tests were conducted to compare pre-, post-, and retention test mean scores by grade group. McNemar's test was used to determine if there was a change in parent-reported prevention practices following the intervention.ResultsThe first/second grade group and the third grade group scored significantly higher on the post- and retention test as compared to the pre-test (p<0.0001 for all comparisons). There was no significant change in scores for the pre-k/k group after the intervention. There was a significant increase in 2 of 4 parent-reported fire/burn-related prevention practices after the intervention.ConclusionFire safety knowledge improved among first to third grade children, but not among pre-kinder and kindergarten children who participated in the intervention. This study also showed that a program targeted towards children and delivered in a classroom setting has the potential to influence familial prevention practices by proxy.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.

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