An exploratory investigation of child safety seat use among citizens of the United Arab Emirates

Bromfield, Nicole F.; Mahmoud, Moataz

doi:10.1080/19439962.2016.1228090

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“…While few studies showed that young age was associated with enhanced use of child safety seat others failed to find any significance. 10,17,18 Surprisingly, despite various child safety seat initiatives in UAE, expatriate mothers were more aware of child restraint use than those belonging to UAE. Asians form the majority (~87%) of the expats in UAE, while Europe and Africa make the minority.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…[21][22][23] On the other hand, only educational programs and awareness campaigns were found to be ineffective. A recent study in UAE proposed that absence of social pressure might also contribute to less use of child restraints [10]. In that study, half of the participants reasoned that since most of their family and friends with the kids didn't use child restraints, they also don't use it and are not embarrassed by it.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…A positive impact of higher education of mother (university level or higher) has been reported on the usage of child restraints by many studies. 10,17,18 Effect of mother's age on the use of child safety seat is variable. While few studies showed that young age was associated with enhanced use of child safety seat others failed to find any significance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This agrees with a recent survey in UAE. 10 More than half of the mothers didn't have child car safety seat on their journey home from the hospital. The positive attitude towards child restraint to be safer might be the consequence of the various initiative programs; however, lack of compulsory law enforcing it in UAE might have resulted in its less practice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the study also indicated that Emirati parents found inconvenient to use the child safety seat which caused only 20% usage of car safety seats. 10 Besides, other hurdles that come in the way of using child car safety seat includes big Emirati family size, Emirati culture, embarrassments felt by the child, and a shortage of police on roads as well as the use of tinted glass by the motorist affecting law enforcement. Albeit numerous initiatives were undertaken for promoting usage of child car safety seat in UAE none are fruitful enough to bring down the child-related fatalities at par with other high-income countries like the USA and Europe.…”

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Assessment of mother’s knowledge on importance and need for Child Car Safety Seat in UAE

Elhalik¹,

El-Atawi²,

Mahfouz³

et al. 2018

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Objectives: To evaluate maternal awareness and perception on child car safety seat usage in Latifa Women and Children Hospital (LWCH), Dubai, UAE and determine the factors contributing to it. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical survey using self-administered questionnaire was performed in two post-natal wards of Latifa Hospital for Women and Children in Dubai. A total of 201 mothers were included in the study. Descriptive analysis, Chisquare test, and logistic regression analysis were performed to find an association of child restraint use with various factors. Results: Mothers with higher education (93.4%) and non-UAE origins (93.9%) were more aware of the child car safety seat use. Although all of them knew that child restraint is safe (100%) and will use it in future (100%), they all didn't perceive and behave similarly. A considerable portion (31.3%, n=63) opined that holding the newborn in arms is safer (p<0.001), about 18% considered seat belts restraining not necessary for children (p<0.001), 54.2% didn't have child safety seat while leaving hospital with newborn and 34.5% reasoned absence of law enforcing safety seat for it (p<0.001). Despite the fact that all the factors were significantly associated with the use of child safety seat use, in logistic regression analysis mothers with education below university level, having only one child and holding a view against the law necessitating the use of safety seat were the significant predictors of less use of child car safety seats. Conclusion: Intensive measures combining educational campaigns focusing on mothers with lower level of education (i.e. high school, secondary school), and females expecting their first child, amendments in car seat laws, free car seat distribution, and teaching importance of child restraints to parents going to have first child by the hospitals, and mandatory country law enforcing usage of child restraints while driving is needed to improve the awareness and use of child restraints in UAE.

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confidence: 98%