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Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death among children in the United States, and children living in low-income households are particularly at risk for sustaining unintentional injuries. Close parental supervision has been found to reduce young children's risk for injury; however, few...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10515201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37744685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1198314 |
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author | Prokos, Sophia Damashek, Amy Morrongiello, Barbara Arbour, Emilie Belachew, Bethelhem Zafreen, Farzana |
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description | Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death among children in the United States, and children living in low-income households are particularly at risk for sustaining unintentional injuries. Close parental supervision has been found to reduce young children's risk for injury; however, few studies have examined interventions to increase parental supervision. This paper discusses COVID-19 related modifications that were made to a federally funded randomized controlled trial to reduce low-income children's risk for unintentional injury. The study's procedures (data collection and intervention delivery) had to be transitioned from in-person to a fully virtual format. Modifications that were made to the study included use of: participant cell phones to conduct data collection and intervention sessions; virtual meeting software to conduct sessions with participants and; an online platform to collect questionnaire data. In addition, many modifications were required to complete the in-home observation virtually. In terms of feasibility, the investigators were able to collect all of the data that was originally proposed; however, recruitment and retention was more challenging than anticipated. Lessons learned during the modification process are included to provide guidance to researchers seeking to conduct virtual human subjects research in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-105152012023-09-23 Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research Prokos, Sophia Damashek, Amy Morrongiello, Barbara Arbour, Emilie Belachew, Bethelhem Zafreen, Farzana Front Digit Health Digital Health Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death among children in the United States, and children living in low-income households are particularly at risk for sustaining unintentional injuries. Close parental supervision has been found to reduce young children's risk for injury; however, few studies have examined interventions to increase parental supervision. This paper discusses COVID-19 related modifications that were made to a federally funded randomized controlled trial to reduce low-income children's risk for unintentional injury. The study's procedures (data collection and intervention delivery) had to be transitioned from in-person to a fully virtual format. Modifications that were made to the study included use of: participant cell phones to conduct data collection and intervention sessions; virtual meeting software to conduct sessions with participants and; an online platform to collect questionnaire data. In addition, many modifications were required to complete the in-home observation virtually. In terms of feasibility, the investigators were able to collect all of the data that was originally proposed; however, recruitment and retention was more challenging than anticipated. Lessons learned during the modification process are included to provide guidance to researchers seeking to conduct virtual human subjects research in the future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10515201/ /pubmed/37744685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1198314 Text en © 2023 Prokos, Damashek, Morrongiello, Arbour, Belachew and Zafreen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Digital Health Prokos, Sophia Damashek, Amy Morrongiello, Barbara Arbour, Emilie Belachew, Bethelhem Zafreen, Farzana Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title | Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title_full | Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title_fullStr | Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title_full_unstemmed | Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title_short | Conducting a child injury prevention RCT in the wake of COVID-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
title_sort | conducting a child injury prevention rct in the wake of covid-19: lessons learned for virtual human subjects research |
topic | Digital Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10515201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37744685 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1198314 |
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