Recruiting
Phase 3

Playground Surfaces

Sponsor:

The Hospital for Sick Children

Code:

NCT00213174

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries

Closed Head Injury

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 11

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

school playgrounds

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study will compare children's injury rates (arm fracture, head injury and other injuries) when playing on playground equipment on granite sand versus wood fibre playing surfaces.

The hypothesis is that injury rates (arm fracture, head injury and other injuries) among school children are equal on granite sand and wood fibre playground surfaces.

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries

Closed Head Injury

Study ID

NCT00213174

Start date

Jan, 2005

Status verified date

Aug, 2013

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 5 - 11

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • School children
  • Ages 5-11
  • Injured on falls from play equipment during supervised school hours

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Children injured outside of supervised school hours

Study Design

Enrollment

34 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

school playgrounds

Primary outcome measure

  • Upper extremity fracture rates [ Time Frame: undefined ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Andrew W Howard, MD, MSc

416-813-6430andrew.howard@sickkids.ca

Locations

The Hospital for Sick Children

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8

Contacts

Howard Andrew, MD

416 813-6430andrew.howard@sickkids.ca

More Information

Sponsor

The Hospital for Sick Children

Last update posted

Aug 15, 2013

Last verified

Aug, 2013

Keywords

  • pediatrics
  • injury
  • arm fractures
  • trauma
  • playground surfaces
  • fractures

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Hospital for Sick Children on 2013-08-15.