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Personal, home and community safety promotion with community-dwelling elderly persons — response to a public health nurse intervention
Author(s)	Jenny Ploeg, Margaret E Black, Brian G Hutchison
Journal title	Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol 85, no 3, May/June 1994
Pages	pp 188-191
Keywords	Safety services ; Accident prevention ; Influenza ; Immunisation ; Living in the community ; Home care services ; Social surveys ; Canada.
Annotation	In this Canadian study, public health clients aged 65 years and older were randomly allocated to receive an intervention by a public health nurse during a home visit, promoting either safety behaviours or influenza immunisation. Sixty-eight clients reported making a total of 103 safety changes, with almost equal proportions making changes in the safety and influenza groups (21.9% vs 18.3%). A higher percentage of males (25%) than females (17.3%) reported making safety changes following the intervention. Further research should focus on the effectiveness of safety promotion strategies which are expanded to include seniors participation, policy development and community planning and design.
Accession Number	CPA-980108256 A
Classmark	OK: OQ: CJM: LLF: K4: NH: 3F: 7S *
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