Table 1.

Content and ordering of the smoke alarm home visit and differences between arms

Activity	Full Education	Practice	Current Norm
1. Consent form (in-home or at a church where the person made an installation appointment)	X	X	X
2. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviour (KAB) survey (see online supplementary appendix B)	X	X	X
3. Intake form: address, date, arm number, educator, if consented	X	X	X
4. Household demographic form	X	X	X
5. Fire safety checklist (educator follows the script as the installer tests existing alarms and identifies where alarms should be added or replaced)	X	X	X
6. Hands-on practice testing and changing the alarm battery and hushing the alarm; based on social-cognitive theory	X	X
7. Education based on the health belief model	X
8. Hand comprehensive fire education brochure	X
9. Hand smoke alarm brochure		X
10. Hand fire department ‘baseball card’		X	X
Simultaneously with 6/7, a second staff member
a. Installed or put new batteries in smoke alarms	X	X	X
b. Installed battery-operated touch lights in stairwells if needed	X	X	X

#, Number; KAB; knowledge, attitudes and behaviour.