The effects of the Fire Safety at Home programme on four fire safety behaviours among older adults

IF 3.4 3区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Fire Safety Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI:10.1016/j.firesaf.2025.104337

Margo Karemaker , Gill A. Ten Hoor , René R. Hagen , Carine H.M. van Schie , Robert A.C. Ruiter

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Abstract

Older adults face an increased risk of injury or fatality in domestic home fires, emphasizing the need to focus on promoting fire safety behaviours within this demographic group. Therefore, the Fire Safety at Home programme was developed.

In the effect evaluation, 433 participants (>65 years) participated. Participants in the intervention group received a systematically developed fire safety programme, while the control group received a fire safety programme as is given by the Dutch fire service. Outcome measures assessed four fire safety behaviours (i.e., staying in the kitchen while cooking, not connecting power strips to each other, charging electronic devices, and cleaning the dryer lint filter after every cycle) and key behavioural determinants (attitude, self-efficacy, and risk perception). A measure of behavioural intention was added as a proxy indicator of future fire safety behaviours.

Where improvements over time were found for all behaviours in both groups (control- and intervention-group), compared to the control group, the new intervention yielded significant improvement in three out of the four fire safety behaviours. Additionally, the intervention positively influenced the social cognitive determinants attitude and risk perception.

Based on this study, it can be concluded that effectively instigating changes in fire safety behaviour among older adults can be achieved by specifically and intensively targeting these specific behaviours and their determinants in an intervention.

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家居消防安全计划对长者四项消防安全行为的影响

老年人在家庭火灾中受伤或死亡的风险增加，强调需要重点促进这一人口群体的消防安全行为。因此，制订了“家居消防安全”计划。效果评价共有433名参与者（65岁）参与。干预组的参与者接受了系统制定的消防安全方案，而对照组接受了荷兰消防部门提供的消防安全方案。结果测量评估了四种消防安全行为（即做饭时待在厨房里，不连接电源线，给电子设备充电，每次循环后清洁干衣棉过滤器）和关键行为决定因素（态度、自我效能和风险认知）。增加了行为意图的测量，作为未来消防安全行为的代理指标。与对照组相比，随着时间的推移，两组（对照组和干预组）的所有行为都有所改善，新的干预措施在四种消防安全行为中的三种中产生了显着改善。此外，干预对社会认知决定因素态度和风险感知有正向影响。基于这项研究，可以得出结论，通过在干预中专门和集中针对这些特定行为及其决定因素，可以有效地促进老年人消防安全行为的改变。

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Fire Safety Journal 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

5.70

自引率

9.70%

发文量

153

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Fire Safety Journal is the leading publication dealing with all aspects of fire safety engineering. Its scope is purposefully wide, as it is deemed important to encourage papers from all sources within this multidisciplinary subject, thus providing a forum for its further development as a distinct engineering discipline. This is an essential step towards gaining a status equal to that enjoyed by the other engineering disciplines.