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Impact of a parent education program delivered by nurses and health care providers in reducing infant physical abuse hospitalization rates in British Columbia, Canada Sadler, Karen; Rajabali, Fahra; Zheng, Alex; Jain, Nita; Pike, Ian, 1958-

Abstract

Background: The Period of PURPLE Crying Program® (PURPLE) is a universal parent educatio program that is delivered by nurses and health care providers to all parents/caregiver of newborns in British Columbia (B.C.). The aim of the program is to reduce the incidence of Traumatic Head Injury -Child Maltreatment (THI-CM), a form of child physical abuse. Objective: To determine if the PURPLE program had an impact on the rate of physical abuse hospitalizations for children less than or equal to 24 months of age in B.C. since implementation in 2009. Methods: The analysis measured physical abuse hospitalization rates for the period January 1,1999 to December 31, 2019 and excluded any cases of confirmed Traumatic Head Injury-Child Maltreatment. Data were divided into pre-implementation period January,1999 to December, 2008, and post-implementation period January, 2009 to December, 2019. Data were obtained from the Discharge Abstract Database and B.C. THI-CM Surveillance System to capture information on infant child abuse. Poisson regression and ANCOVA was applied to model the change in rates pre and post program implementation. Results: Physical abuse hospitalization rates decreased by 30% post program implementation (95% CI: -14%, 57%, p=0.1561). The decreasing linear trend in the post-implementation period was significantly different than the increasing linear trend in the pre-implementation period (F1,17=4.832, p=0.042). Conclusions: Nurses’ role in engaging parents in conversations about PURPLE messages over multiple timepoints within a structured universal program model resulted in a decrease in physical abuse hospitalization rates since the implementation of PURPLE.

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Impact of a parent education program delivered by nurses and health care providers in reducing infant physical abuse hospitalization rates in British Columbia, Canada
Alternate Title
Parent education in reducing infant physical abuse
Creator
Sadler, Karen; Rajabali, Fahra; Zheng, Alex; Jain, Nita; Pike, Ian, 1958-
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit; Children's Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.)
Date Issued
2024-03
Description
Background: The Period of PURPLE Crying Program® (PURPLE) is a universal parent educatio program that is delivered by nurses and health care providers to all parents/caregiver of newborns in British Columbia (B.C.). The aim of the program is to reduce the incidence of Traumatic Head Injury -Child Maltreatment (THI-CM), a form of child physical abuse. Objective: To determine if the PURPLE program had an impact on the rate of physical abuse hospitalizations for children less than or equal to 24 months of age in B.C. since implementation in 2009. Methods: The analysis measured physical abuse hospitalization rates for the period January 1,1999 to December 31, 2019 and excluded any cases of confirmed Traumatic Head Injury-Child Maltreatment. Data were divided into pre-implementation period January,1999 to December, 2008, and post-implementation period January, 2009 to December, 2019. Data were obtained from the Discharge Abstract Database and B.C. THI-CM Surveillance System to capture information on infant child abuse. Poisson regression and ANCOVA was applied to model the change in rates pre and post program implementation. Results: Physical abuse hospitalization rates decreased by 30% post program implementation (95% CI: -14%, 57%, p=0.1561). The decreasing linear trend in the post-implementation period was significantly different than the increasing linear trend in the pre-implementation period (F1,17=4.832, p=0.042). Conclusions: Nurses’ role in engaging parents in conversations about PURPLE messages over multiple timepoints within a structured universal program model resulted in a decrease in physical abuse hospitalization rates since the implementation of PURPLE.
Subject
Children and youth (0-19); Concussion/traumatic brain injury; Injury outcomes; Injury policy and prevention
Genre
Article; Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2024-05-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0442406
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88251
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Other UBC; Pediatrics, Department of
Citation
Impact of a Parent Education Program Delivered by Nurses and Health Care Providers in Reducing Infant Physical Abuse Hospitalization Rates in British Columbia, Canada Karen Sadler, Fahra Rajabali, Alex Zheng, Nita Jain, and Ian Pike Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 2024 56:1, 109-116
Publisher DOI
10.1177/08445621231222527
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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