Measuring community/environmental interventions: The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project

Abstract

Objectives - To assess the effectiveness of community/environmental interventions undertaken as part of the Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP). Setting - Three communities (local government areas) in the Perth metropolitan area, Western Australia. Methods - A quasiexperimental community intervention trial was undertaken over three years (1995-97). Three communities were assigned to either: a community/environmental road safety intervention and a school based road/ pedestrian safety education program (intervention group 1); a school based road/pedestrian safety education program only (intervention group 2); or to no road safety intervention (comparison group). Quantification o..