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Community child health and accident & emergency

G54. A SURE START INITIATIVE TO REDUCE ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY ATTENDANCES: ADULT EDUCATION HELPS PARENTS MANAGE COMMON CHILDHOOD ILLNESS
T.C. Kilgour, A.F. Mellon.

Sure Start Thorney Close, Sunderland; University of Leeds

Aims: Studies have suggested that professionals have considerable potential to empower parents to look after their own children when they have an acute illness by sharing knowledge and skills. The aims of this study were to develop a training package on common childhood illnesses for delivery to parent groups by a health professional and to undertake an initial evaluation of its effectiveness.

Methods: A group of ‘Sure Start’ parents identified their concerns when their children had an acute illness. They felt that anxieties might be reduced if they were knowledgeable about these illnesses and requested group teaching. A training package was developed and delivered to six successive groups. The final package consisted of six sessions of two hours, held over consecutive weeks. The package was evaluated using Kirkpatrick’s hierarchy of levels of evaluation of an educational intervention. Outcome . . . [Full text of this article]