A range of educational and promotional methods have been
used to encourage the use of safety equipment, often with the
provision of free or discounted equipment. These have included:
information and lessons targeting parents and/or children;
media campaigns highlighting the importance of their use; and
health promotion counselling by clinicians. In general, these
types of programmes have been successful in increasing the
use of safety equipment (e.g. cycle helmet use among children
[31,32] and use of booster seats [33,34]). There is less research
exploring impacts on injury. However, some evaluations have
reported encouraging findings.