Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The "Let's Get Alarmed!" initiative: a smoke alarm giveaway programme.
To reduce fires and fire related injuries by increasing the prevalence of functioning smoke alarms in high risk households. ⋯ It is possible to implement a large scale smoke alarm giveaway programme targeted to high risk households in a densely populated, multicultural, materially deprived community. The programme's effects on the prevalence of installed and functioning alarms and the incidence of fires and fire related injuries, and its cost effectiveness, are being evaluated as a randomized controlled trial.