# A New m-Health Tool for Injury Prevention Anticipatory Guidance of Parents with Infants

> **NIH NIH R21** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $102,344

## Abstract

Project Summary
This two-year R21 proposal will support the development and pilot testing a new m-Health tool -
- a comprehensive injury prevention package delivered through mobile technology as a part of
routine well child care. This clinic-based project will serve low income, urban families in East
Baltimore, MD. The final package will include guidance on falls prevention, infant safe sleep,
scald burn prevention, and the use of car safety seats and smoke alarms. The package will use
theory-based, personalized assessment and persuasive message tailoring to deliver impactful
content in feedback reports for parents and for providers, which in turn will improve parent-
provider communication, and, when combined with facilitating access to needed safety
products, will enable parents to better protect their infants from some of the leading causes of
injury. The specific aims of this proposal are to: Aim 1. Determine parents’ knowledge, beliefs,
and practices related to preventing falls among their infants; translate results into digitized
educational content. Aim 2. Digitize existing educational content on infant safe sleep and scald
burn prevention. Aim 3. Create and pilot test a new m-Health tool -- a comprehensive, digitized
package of educational content covering falls prevention, infant safe sleep, scald burn
prevention, and the use of car safety seats and smoke alarms. Results will make a unique
contribution to the scholarly literature on technology-enhanced pediatric anticipatory guidance,
as well as provide preliminary data for a large scale R01 intervention trial.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10018042
- **Project number:** 5R21HD099513-02
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Andrea C Gielen
- **Activity code:** R21 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $102,344
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-13 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10018042

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10018042, A New m-Health Tool for Injury Prevention Anticipatory Guidance of Parents with Infants (5R21HD099513-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10018042. Licensed CC0.

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