An ethnography of low-income mothers' safeguarding efforts

Olsen, Lise; Bottorff, Joan L.; Raina, Parminder; Frankish, C. James

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2008.10.006

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“…Details of the included studies' main research questions and samples can be seen in figure 2. Four described studies were based in the USA,17–20 three were from the UK,21–23 one was from Australia24 and one was from Canada 25. The methodological quality of the study reports was mixed—four were rated as poor, four as adequate, one as good.…”

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Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research

2010

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BackgroundThis review considers barriers to, and facilitators of, success for interventions to reduce unintentional injury to children in the home through supply and/or installation of home safety equipment, and looks at risk assessments.MethodsA systematic review of qualitative research. Bibliographic databases were searched for studies on interventions to reduce unintentional child injury in the home, or on related attitudes and behaviours. Studies were quality appraised, findings extracted, and a conceptual framework was developed to assess factors affecting the success of interventions.ResultsNine peer-reviewed journal articles were included. Barriers and facilitators were highlighted at organisational, environmental and personal levels. Effective provision of safety equipment involves ongoing support with installation and maintenance. Take up and success of interventions depends on adjusting interventions according to practical limitations and parents' cultural expectations. A particular barrier was parents' inability to modify rented or shared accommodation.ConclusionsThe review highlights ways in which health inequalities affect the take up and success of home safety interventions, and how health workers can use this knowledge to facilitate future interventions.

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“…Eight studies found that a major barrier to implementing safety equipment and childproofing a home was not living in a home one was free to modify because of living in rented accommodation and/or with extended family 17 25…”

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Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research

2010

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“…Children living within an environment where there is limited space for safe play both indoors and outdoors are also at an increased risk of unintentional injury (Olsen, Bottorff et al 2008). St Ann's families that live in a home that is in greater need of repair may face a greater requirement to provide more constant and vigilant supervision than parents in Wollaton west who live in homes of good repair and quality.…”

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“…Parents in St Ann's may have been more reluctant to reveal that they use listening as a supervision strategy than parents in Wollaton west. This may be linked with the fear of talking to professionals for fear of the consequences (Brannan 1992;Mull, Agran et al 2001;Hendrickson 2008;Olsen, Bottorff et al 2008). …”

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Maternal perceptions of supervision in pre-school-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas

Ablewhite

Kendrick

Watson

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Prim Health Care Res Dev

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Ian (2015) Maternal perceptions of supervision in preschool-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 16 (4 A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.For more information, please contact eprints@nottingham.ac.uk 1 Maternal perceptions of supervision in pre-school age children:A qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas Abstract Aim: To explore maternal perceptions of supervision and childhood unintentional injury in order to develop understanding and explanation for differences in unintentional injury rates between an advantaged and disadvantaged area.Background: Unintentional injury is the second cause of mortality and a significant cause of morbidity in the 0-4 year age group. Children living in socio-economic disadvantage are at a greater risk of unintentional injury than their more affluent counter parts. Methods:Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews; content data analysis was undertaken. Participants included thirty seven mothers with a child aged less than five years; 16 living in an area of disadvantage (and high rate of childhood unintentional injury) and 21 living in an advantaged area (and low rate of childhood unintentional injury).Findings: Parents in both areas described the importance of parental supervision in reducing child unintentional injury risks. Parents in both areas used listening as a supervision strategy. Parents in both areas described how 'when the child goes quiet' that is a cue for them to make a visual check on the child. Listening was used more for boys than girls in both areas, but parents in the advantaged area used listening as a supervision strategy more frequently than those in the disadvantaged area. Parents described supervision strategies as being shaped by child character and age rather than child gender. Parents in both areas described similar strategies for managing distractions. An important difference was found with regard to older siblings; parents living in the advantaged area described older siblings as an injury risk to younger children. Parents in the disadvantaged area described older siblings as providing some supervision for younger children. Parents living in disadvantaged circumstances may face greater challenges with regard to supervision than parents living in advantaged circumstances and this may partly explain differences in injury risk.

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“…Research that has made parents' (mostly mothers') safety efforts visible defines them as including routine practices, responses to hazards, safekeeping activities, decisions about health and injury prevention strategies, guarding children from family and community violence, safeguarding on an everyday basis, and keeping children safe from traffic (Olsen, Bottorff, Raina, and Frankish 2008). This literature, which focuses on parental responsibility in protecting children, often uses the terms safekeeping and safeguarding interchangeably.…”

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Under the Radar: Parental Traffic Safeguarding and Automobility

McLaren

Parusel

2012

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Research shows that parental mobility care of children has become a growing feature in many western cities, but parental traffic safeguarding has rarely been examined. Based on an ethnographic, comparative case study of two elementary (primary) schools located in Vancouver, Canada, this paper explores how auto-dominated urban environments intertwine with gender and other social inequalities to produce highly charged, variegated and contested parental safeguarding practices in the school journey. The paper also examines how parental traffic safeguarding is discursively and materially organized in relation to automobility and the social denial of its inherent dangers. Two themes (risky traffic spaces and parental traffic safeguarding strategies) illustrate the ways in which parents practice traffic safeguarding in specific contexts and how as part of domestic labour, their practices contribute to automobility and its illusion of safety.

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An ethnography of low-income mothers' safeguarding efforts

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research

Barriers to, and facilitators of, the prevention of unintentional injury in children in the home: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research

Maternal perceptions of supervision in pre-school-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas

Under the Radar: Parental Traffic Safeguarding and Automobility

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