Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on March 3, 2005
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2006 31(2):152-162; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsj001
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The Stamp-in-Safety Program: A Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Behaviors that Can Lead to Unintentional Playground Injury in a Preschool Setting
1 Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham and 2 Department of Psychology, University of Guelph
All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to David C. Schwebel, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, CH 415, Birmingham, Alabama 35294. E-mail: schwebel{at}uab.edu.
Received August 13, 2004; revisions received October 10, 2004 and December 17, 2004; accepted January 5, 2005
Objective To introduce and evaluate the Stamp-in-Safety program, a behavioral intervention designed to increase the quality of supervision by teachers on preschool playgrounds and to reduce the risk of unintentional child playground injury. Methods A quasi-experimental time series design was used, with observational techniques, to evaluate behavior on the playground before, during, and after the intervention as well as during a 6-month post-intervention assessment. Results Both applied behavior analysis techniques and inferential statistics suggest that the Stamp-in-Safety program resulted in behavioral changes likely to reduce the risk of child injury on the playgrounds of childcare centers. Conclusion Results indicate promise for the Stamp-in-Safety program as a low-cost, easily implemented intervention to reduce pediatric playground injury risk at childcare centers. Suggestions for future research are offered.
Key words: childcare centers; injury; intervention; playground safety; supervision.
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