Prevention of childhood poisoning: efficacy of an educational program carried out in an emergency clinic

摘要: For many inner-city families, the emergency clinic is most frequent and sometimes only point of contact with medical services. We hypothesized that this setting could serve as an opportunity to direct a health promotion at population might not receive such message elsewhere. The objectives program were (1) remind parents telephone number Massachusetts Poison Center, (2) ensure have ipecac for use in emergency, (3) counsel on how ipecac. Of 403 families recruited from divided randomly into intervention nonintervention groups, 262 completed follow-up interview 6 months later (65%). Results showed 68% compared 42% control reported storage (chi 2 = 7.65, P .005) 40% v 25% familiarity 4.04, .04). Accessibility poison center's was by 62% 49% 4.60, .13). Finally, they had sticker their phone center it .03). Our results suggest brief intervention, even clinic, can introduce topic poisoning prevention encourage syrup home.