Safety Check Study

Aims

The Safety Check study will evaluate the effectiveness of brief patient screening and counseling procedures that are easy to incorporate into a routine check-up in a busy primary care office. Practices will be randomly assigned to one of two study groups. One group will receive training and tested educational materials to incorporate violence prevention into standard practice, and the other will receive educational materials on encouraging reading aloud, another topic important to the provisions of services for healthy child development.

SPECIFIC AIMS:

Evaluate the effectiveness of screening and counseling procedures on changing parental behaviors and the stability of changes in behavior over the short term.

Identify the effectiveness of clinician screening and counseling for patients of different ethnic groups.