TY - JOUR
T1 - Safety hazards in households with young children
AU - Glik, Deborah C.
AU - Greaves, Peggy E.
AU - Kronenfdd, Jenny J.
AU - Jackson, Kirby L.
N1 - Funding Information:
•This research was supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grant R01-HD21599-03, from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 2A11 correspondence should be sent to Deborah C. Glik, Division of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of California-Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024.
PY - 1993/2
Y1 - 1993/2
N2 - Interviewed 230 mothers of young children concerning in-home observations of safety hazards related to burns, poisoning, and falls, and self-reported measures of maternal supervision, locus of control, social support, and safety attitudes. These were supplemented by measures of mothers' risk perceptions, stress and coping, their child's previous injury experience, and indicators of the family's socioeconomic status (SES) collected by telephone survey. SES was an important predictor of observed home hazards. Child-related variables, risk perceptions, and domain-specific attitudes had little influence on home hazards. Maternal supervisory style, rated on dimensions of protectiveness, was an important correlate of all types of household hazards. Results suggest that residential injury prevention strategies for young children should stress active as well as passive countermeasures.
AB - Interviewed 230 mothers of young children concerning in-home observations of safety hazards related to burns, poisoning, and falls, and self-reported measures of maternal supervision, locus of control, social support, and safety attitudes. These were supplemented by measures of mothers' risk perceptions, stress and coping, their child's previous injury experience, and indicators of the family's socioeconomic status (SES) collected by telephone survey. SES was an important predictor of observed home hazards. Child-related variables, risk perceptions, and domain-specific attitudes had little influence on home hazards. Maternal supervisory style, rated on dimensions of protectiveness, was an important correlate of all types of household hazards. Results suggest that residential injury prevention strategies for young children should stress active as well as passive countermeasures.
KW - Childhood injury
KW - Home safety hazards
KW - Injury prevention
KW - Maternal supervision
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U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/18.1.115
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/18.1.115
M3 - Article
C2 - 8463930
AN - SCOPUS:0027477252
SN - 0146-8693
VL - 18
SP - 115
EP - 131
JO - Journal of pediatric psychology
JF - Journal of pediatric psychology
IS - 1
ER -