title: Teaching safety at a summer camp: evaluation of a fire safety curriculum in an urban community setting.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data 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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fire 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Audrie A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Chavez
authors.affiliation: Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Trauma Services, 4900 Mueller Blvd, Austin, TX 78723, USA. Electronic address: svduzinski@seton.org.
authors.forename: Sarah V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Duzinski
authors.affiliation: SafeKids Worldwide, 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004, USA. Electronic address: twheeler@safekids.org.
authors.forename: Tareka C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.affiliation: Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Trauma Services, 4900 Mueller Blvd, Austin, TX 78723, USA. Electronic address: kalawson@seton.org.
authors.forename: Karla A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Lawson
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012449:Safety; D012572:School Health Services; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Burn prevention; Fire safety; Pediatrics; Program evaluation