DOCUMENT:REHM EDI 131 2,7 CB" 008 364 ,.-! .7. IkTIOR Healer, Cheryl V.; And Others' T TLE Burn Injuries: Causes ConseqUelices4 Knowledge, , BehtViora. 14 DiST/TUTION Education Development Center,'Inc., Newton, Mass..; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.;.National Firs:Protection Association, Boston, Mass.;"Shriners . Burns Inst.-, Boston, Mass.: SPONS'AGENCY tonsumer Product Safety Commissiom, Washington, D.C. 12011 DATE Jun 76 .; CONTRACT CPSC-C-75-0107 NOTE 324p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HCr$16.73.Plus Postage: DESCRIPTORS Adolescents; Adults; *Age Gronps;' Children; Clinical Diagnosis; Educational .ASsessment; *Educational Diagnosis; *Fire ProteCtion;YFirst.Aid; *Injuries;, Intervention; Medicat Reseirck; *Needs assessment; Older Adults; Safety; Safety Pducation; Tables (Data) - c IDENTIFIERS Massachusetts ... -ABSTRACT This report covers Phase I of the,Burn Injury ` Education Demonstration Project, a four-phased project'designedto explore the feasibility of using educational intervention strategies to increase knowledge and, appropriate behavior:it -andfattitudes to _reduce the 'limber and severity df burns. Phase / involveda comprehensive needs assessment conducted to determine thepatterns of burn accidents, profiles of burn victims, and the current gtateof knowledge, deficits, and kisconceptions with regard.to'the prevention and emergency treatment of buxm injuries. Two majorresearch activities are discussed: Collection of burn data and,educational diagnosis Burn accident data are presented intwo formats--(1) State Burn Incidence Data,_derived solely from burn ieports receivedfrom the Massachusetts Department of Public Health,and (2) Burn Victim Profile Data, derived from accident investigationsand interviews with burn victims. The educational diagnosis dataare based on the results of several instruments (a criterion-referenced test,a telephone survey, and home interviews) andare ofganixed according to. the nature and extent of knowledge, and the behavior aed practicesof - the sample populations. Both burn incidence'data,and the resultsof the educational diagnosis ate presented for six sample age *groups: Children under 3 years of age and their.parents, children aged 3to 13, children aged 9 to 12, adolescents aged 13 to 19, adults aged20 to 59, and elderly,persons aged 60 and above.(Author) >Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished materials not available from othervurces. ERIC makes every effort to" obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal reproducibilityare often encountered and this affects the quality of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available via the.ERIC Document ReProduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not responsible forrthe quality of the original document. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best thatcan be made from the origin.el. BPRWINqVRIES:; r CAUSES,CONSEQUENCES, KNOWieEpCE, BEHAVIORS P!' 7 ill rn Cheryl V. Healer Elizabeth McLoughlin Vivian H. Guilfoy U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION W NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIGIN. ATING IT POINTS CIF VI6W OR OPINIONS STATED DD NOT NECESSARILY REPRE. SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTEOF EOUCATION POSITION OR POLICY MassachuseVLs General Hospital Shriners Burns Ipstitute A Education'Development Center National Fire Protection Association Boston, Massachusetts June 1976 Funded by the U.S. Consumer product Safety Commission 2 4 This project has been fun ed with Pederal funds . from the United States Ccrisuxner Product'Safety Commission,under contractj number CPSC-C-75-0107. The content of this publ cation does not neces- sarily reflect the viewsof the Commission,.nor does mention of trade names, commercial products& or organizations imply endorsement by the Com- mission. ABSTRACT , Thih Report covers Phase I o4 the Burn Injury Education. DemonstrationProject, a four-phased to . explore the feasibility of using edUcationaln-rverition.j strategies to increase kn6wledgif and aPPropriatethavieors, and attitUdes to reduce .eth number and severIty-OL burnS..; During Phase I', A eqmprehensl.ve needs assessment.yaS cot* ducted to determine the patterns of burh accidentsuprofiles' of-burn,victims, and the.current state of Anoisitedg4, d41cits, and misconceptions with regard to the,prevention andemergency trehtmentof burn injuries. This Report disdusses the findings of the two major research activities: the,collection of burn data, and the educational diagnosis. / urn .accident data are presented,in tWo distinet.formats: 1), State Burn InCidence Data, derived solely from:burn reports received from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and 21 Burn ViCtim PrOfile Data, derived from - accident inVestigations and interViews with burn victims. The'Educational Diagnosis was based on the results of 5 several instruments, inclUding a criterion-referenced tqst, a telephone survey, and home interviews. Data are ! Organized:in the\report according to the nature and extent of- knowleage and the.behavior and practices of the sample populations. Both Burn.Incidence Data and tie results of : the Educational'Diagnosis are presented by,,4hnple age-groups: Children qnder 3 and Their Parents, Childr n 3 to 8 Years ' of Age, Children 9 to 12 Years of Age, Adolescents 13 tor19. YearS of.Age, Adults 20 to 59 Years of Age, and Elderly Persons 60+ Years of Age. Also included in tile Final Report are a description of 1 methodology, summary of researeh findinTs, presentation of , 'findings by the six risk-groups listed above, and conclusions. - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - Four Boston area institutions collaborated,in Phase I of the Burn Injury Edudation Demonstration Project, each contributing personnel and expertise to certain assigned tasks. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL assumed primary contractual zesponsibility for the project. The Committee on Research, under the experienced direction of its Executive Secretary, . Ralih G. Meader, PhD, And the Sub-Committee on Human Studies monitored project activities which involVed issues of contract congidentiality. Special thanks are due June Crolius, Research Adminiatration Assistant in the office of:the Committee on Research, and Mark Flaim in the Special Funds Department,where the project's aacounts were managed. SHRINERS BURNS INSTITUTE provided the project's headquarters, as Well as. a compelling dailyreminder that better methods of Coping with the, burn injury problem must be found. Personnel included John D. Crawford, MD, Principal Investigator; Elizabeth McLoughlinProject Director; and Ninoh Freeman, Project .Assistant. Melissa Chait, Joan Flynn, And Marie Whitten condtcted all burn vi9tim interviewa; DebOrah Parker coded the burn investigation an1 interview files; Martin Tannenbaum assisted in data analysis. This SBI staff assumed responsiblity for the overall direction of the project, the coordinatibn of the wotk at alf four institutions, and collection and Analysis of the Burn,Profile batiin the Final Report. John Locke, of the Q.S.. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Boston Area-Office, gave'lnvaluable assistance in data collection, analysis and'interpretation, drawing on Ais ten years of experience as a burn accident field investigator. A EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER assumed responsibility for the _project's educational coMponent. The desigri.fOr the Educatinal .Diagnosis in Phase I was deyeloped by Karen'C, Cohen, PhD, Eileen Peters and *les Gordon. Cheryl Healer as the EDC Project Director had. Majoi responsibilitY for implementation for Phase'l. The work'. of EDC was accomplished by many people Vivian Gurlfoy as educational program developer, Ann Lee as research assistant, John Murphy as statistician, and Paul Ross aS computer programmer. Judy Halpern and,Nicole Riesman administered.all in,s6hool.questionnaires and interviews. Many thanks to the school suBerintelidents, 'principals and teachers, whose cooperation allowed us to discover. valuable information of What students don't,know about burn 'prevention. One aspect of the Educational Diagnosis, the telephone survey, was conducted by Marttila, Payhe, Kiley and Thorne, under the supervision of Rebecca CraWford, and EDC. NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION as.sumed reSponsibility for' the collection and, analysis of the burn injury baseline data. F. James Kauffman collabOrated with George A. Michael, Sc.D., and the staff,at the Massachusetts Department of Public'Health in utilizing the mandatory state burn reporting system.Michael Karter did the compUter programming and data analysis for the burn incidence data. THE FINAL REPORT: This Final Report presentS the research findings of Phase I.of,the B.I.E.D.P., made possible by the com- bined efforts of all the people mentioned above. Primary authorShip of the report rests with Cheryl Healer, Vivian Guilfoy, and ElizabethMcLoughlin, with special contributions.made by F. dames Kauffman, Ann Lee, and Ninon Freeman. Anne Glickman.edited the Final Report, incOrporating valuable comments from reviewers John D. CraWford, Eileen Peters,'Whitewood Stamps, Inc Lee Libermaniand Raymond Mafley. Meg WestlAnd and Pamela Ponce de Leon were helpful in facilitating.the work.and Seeing,to the myriad details associated with the production of the report. 'Anri Schwartz and Patricia Jones prepared.the charts, diagrams, and report fOr final_copy. Maria Rainho skillfully typed the final report. 'The Project staff are grateful to William V. White, Director Of the Bureau of Information and Education,. U.S.C.P.S.C.,