Cincinnati Home Injury Prevention (CHIP) Study

The CHIP Study started in 2012 and ended in 2015. It was a randomized control study to test the effectiveness of passive safety measures in the home, such as cabinet locks, outlet covers, and baby gates, in reducing preventable and medically attended injuries. Participants were put into one of two groups: (1) the injury prevention group in which staff come into the home and install the safety measures or (2) the literacy group in which staff come into the home and provide developmentally appropriate books to children as well as set up the child with a library card to the local library.

Publications:

Hutton JS, Phelan K, Horowitz-Kraus T, Dudley J, Altaye M, DeWitt T, et al. (2017) Story time turbocharger? Child engagement during shared reading and cerebellar activation and connectivity in preschool-age children listening to stories. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177398. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177398

Hutton, J. S., Phelan, K., Horowitz-Kraus, T., Dudley, J., Altaye, M., Dewitt, T., & Holland, S. K. (2017). Shared Reading Quality and Brain Activation during Story Listening in Preschool-Age Children. The Journal of Pediatrics, 191. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.08.037