PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 1 January 2000, pp. 114-115
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In this month's Pediatrics
electronic pages, Powell et al1 compare the efficacy
of verbal versus pictorial materials used to implement a single injury
prevention teaching episode directed to a group of clinic parents. The
patient population in the study was drawn from low-income urban
families. Based on other studies, the parents were presumed to have
less than 9th-grade reading levels and were therefore possibly less
likely to benefit from The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) sheets of
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as opposed to pictorial
anticipatory guidance (PAG) sheets that the authors designed. The
authors do not reference their method of determining the reading level
of the TIPP materials (stated to be 9th grade), but the AAP-assessed grade level is 6.3 using