title: Training Older Siblings to be Better Supervisors: An RCT Evaluating the "Safe Sibs" Program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study evaluated a new online training program, Safe Sibs, aimed at improving supervision knowledge and behaviors of sibling supervisors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants included older children (7-11 years) and their younger siblings (2-5 years). A randomized controlled trial design was used, with older siblings randomly assigned to either an intervention or wait-list control group. Before and after either the intervention or wait-list period, older siblings completed measures of supervision knowledge and their supervision behaviors were unobtrusively observed when with their younger sibling.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with the control group, the intervention group showed significant improvements in supervision knowledge (child development, knowledge of effective supervision practices, injury beliefs, intervention-specific knowledge) and in some aspects of supervision behavior (frequency of proactive safety behaviors to prevent supervisee access to injury hazards).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although adult supervision is ideal, this new program can support older children to become more knowledgeable and improved supervisors of younger ones.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Guelph.
authors.forename: Stacey L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Schell
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Guelph bmorrong@uoguelph.ca.
authors.forename: Barbara A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Morrongiello
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Guelph.
authors.forename: Ekaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pogrebtsova
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: injury prevention; intervention; siblings; supervision