Dog Bites an Opportunity for Parent Education in the Pediatric Emergency Department

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• Alternative Title:
  Pediatr Emerg Care
• Personal Author:
  Gielen, Andrea ; Stepnitz, Rebecca ; McDonald, Eileen ; McKenzie, Lara
• Description:
  Objectives
  
  This study focuses on parental report of exposure to dogs and highlights the potential for using a computer kiosk to increase knowledge around dog bite safety in an urban pediatric emergency department.
  
  Methods
  
  901 parents of young children completed a kiosk assessment and received a report which contained information aimed at increasing knowledge about either dog bite prevention (PAR-DB n=453) or other safety behaviors (PAR-S n=448). The participants who received the dog bite prevention report (PAR-DB) were asked questions about exposure to dogs as part of the baseline assessment. All participants were telephoned 2-4 weeks later for a follow-up interview to measure knowledge differences.
  
  Results
  
  The majority of respondents who answered the exposure questions reported seeing stray dogs (53%) and having dangerous dogs (43%) in their neighborhood. Few respondents reported that their child had been bitten by a dog (1%), but the majority (56%) reported having knowledge of another child having been bitten. Few respondents reported having a dog in their home (11%) and only one reported that her dog had bitten a child. A majority (56%) of dogs had not been spayed or neutered. Of families with dogs in the home, 20% reported leaving their child unattended with the dog. A minority (45%) of dogs left alone with children had been spayed or neutered. PAR-DB parents achieved knowledge gains as a result of the parent action report generated by the kiosk, demonstrating the potential to improve knowledge via a computer kiosk in a busy pediatric emergency department.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Animals Bites And Stings Child Child, Preschool Dogs Emergency Service, Hospital Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Incidence Male Parents Risk Assessment Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Source:
  Pediatr Emerg Care. 28(10):966-970.
• Pubmed ID:
  23023457
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3674576
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 HD042777/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; R49 CE002466/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; 5R01 HD04277-03/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0ad8a8dfe7e9dde00cec34d9f690f25340dbd8408a3bb355bee7727cd104fb52
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53474/cdc_53474_DS1.pdf
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