The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP)

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The Precede-Proceed model is highly demanded in health education because it provides guidance for planning health promotion and health programs at a much larger scale (Romas & Sharma, 2012). In the 1970s, Larry Green and Marshall Kreuters developed the Precede model. Then in the 1980s, its name changed to Precede-Proceed. “Precede is an acronym for predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling constructs in educational and environmental diagnosis and evaluation; Proceed is an acronym for policy, regulatory, and organizational constructs in education and environmental development (Romas & Sharma, 2012, p. 43).” As health promotions grew, the model evolved into eight phases noted by Romans and Sharma (2012), phase one is social assessment, phase two …show more content…

In the past, inadequate planning and health promotion interventions were the reason behind ineffective injury control. The key factors causing child pedestrians injuries are addressed and evaluated appropriately with the use of planning models. The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (CPIPP) is “a three-year intervention trial that consists of variable applications of school based student, parent, teacher, and community education, as well as environmental interventions (p. 282).” Within the Perth metropolitan area there are two communities receiving CPIPP interventions, one receiving only the school based program and the other receiving the school based program and the community/ environmental interventions (Cross et al, …show more content…

It includes classification of predisposing factors, which are behavioral change used to motivate; enabling factors, which allows motivation to be acknowledged; and reinforcing factors, which are rewarding for sustaining behavior. According to Cross et al (1997), “the predisposing factors included lack of knowledge about safe road crossing behavior, and perception of low risk of injury while crossing busy roads; the enabling factors included lack of social skills required to ask people to help them cross roads, and inadequate school road safety education; the reinforcing factors included parents allowing children to cross roads alone, and parents’ perceptions that their children have adequate abilities to cross roads safely, unaccompanied (p. 285).” The final step was phase 4, administrative and policy assessment and intervention alignment. It includes alignment of priorities, resources, barriers, and policies. According to Cross et al (1997), “this phase created objectives that related to multiple sub objectives i.e create a quality school based pedestrian safety education program, and the intervention strategies needed were a combination of educational and environmental approaches (p.

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