Childhood accident prevention strategies

O'Shea, John S.

doi:10.1016/0379-0738(86)90004-6

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“…As is the case with injuries due to abuse and neglect, prevention of unintentional injury must involve educating parents concerning realistic developmental expectations and providing them with an effective set of injury prevention skills. Such interventions would seek to teach parents about the appropriate use of barriers such as child gates, about the serious hazards of some supposed child aids (e.g., baby “walkers” are responsible for more emergency room visits than any other aid; O'Shea, 1986), and about ways of ensuring appropriate supervision, especially in situations in which the parent is vulnerable because of immediate factors such as stress, substance use, or fatigue. Tertinger et al (1984), for example, described an intervention to promote home safety in parents adjudicated for abuse and neglect.…”

Section: Future Prevention Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating child injury and abuse-neglect research: Common histories, etiologies, and solutions.

Peterson

Brown²

1994

Psychological Bulletin

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Research on injuries, the leading health threat to children in the United States, has been infrequent and badly fragmented. Research on unintentional injuries and research on abuse-neglect have similar histories, including recent rapprochement with behavioral interventions, and reveal similar etiologies for child injury. Further, recent studies document difficulties in discriminating between unintentional and abuse-neglect-related injuries. The areas also face similar methodological and conceptual challenges. Finally, the same interventions may prevent negative outcomes in both areas. A working model to summarize a more integrated approach to injury prevention is offered. Increasing societal awareness of the threat posed by injuries and strengthening mutually applicable strategies of injury prevention would be sought-after results of unifying efforts in these historically isolated arenas.

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Section: Future Prevention Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating child injury and abuse-neglect research: Common histories, etiologies, and solutions.

Peterson

Brown²

1994

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Minibikes and small toys with projectiles have already been mentioned. Some researchers have estimated that as many as 42% of accidental injuries in children under one year of age may be due to “baby walkers” (O'Shea, 1986), which offer no developmental advantage to infants. Uninflated or underinflated balloons have been reported to cause more deaths in children than any other kind of small object (Baker & Fisher, 1980).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, it remains unclear who will take this action. The parents whose children are most at risk (poor, undereducated, disturbed, or from single-parent families; O'Shea, 1986; Pless, Verreault, & Tenina, 1989) are the least likely to utilize safety precautions. Furthermore, even middle-class parents have neither a strong sense that their children are at risk for serious injury nor the belief that parents should assume the bulk of responsibility for teaching their children safe behavior (Peterson et al, 1990).…”

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Complacency, misdirection, and effective prevention of children's injuries.

Peterson¹,

Roberts²

1992

American Psychologist

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Injuries are the leading killer of children in the United States, yet most parents, communities, and legislatures remain uncommitted to effective injury prevention. Possible reasons for this complacency are described, and effective methods, likely targets, and useful tactics for prevention are reviewed. The greatest challenges to injury preventionists are to persuade those who remain uninformed concerning the importance of injury prevention, to redirect those efforts currently devoted to ineffective interventions, to continue to evaluate and implement effective preventive interventions, and to search for improved prevention strategies.

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“…Injury-related causes account for 3 of the top 15 killers of children aged 0-4 years (12). The burden of child injury is most felt in low-and middleincome countries, of which Uganda is, where 95% of all child-injury deaths occur, and where recorded rates of child maltreatment are substantially more than four times higher than in high-income countries The rate of unintentional injuries for children in sub-Saharan Africa has reached 53.1 per 100,000, the highest for regions across all income levels 5 , in many parts of Africa where there has been escalation of fire arms and wars, child injuries worsened especially affecting the extremities and result into deaths and lifelong disabilities 5,6 .…”

Section: Cosecsa/asea Publication -East and Central African Journal Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence of child injuries in Mbale region, Eastern Uganda

Ibingira¹,

Tumwiine²,

Nankabirwa³

et al. 2016

East. Cent. Afr. J. Surg.

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The rate of unintentional child injuries in sub-Saharan Africa is at 53.1 per 100,000, The highest for low income regions, data on these injuries and associated factors among children in Uganda is very scanty. Most child injuries are related to the way of life in rural communities typically burns from charcoal stoves, candle light , hot fluids, chemicals , falls, and animal bites. Methods: This was a cross sectional community survey among the Promise EBF participants in Mbale district of east Uganda. Objective; to establish the prevalence, causes and associated factors of unintentional child injuries in Mbale District. Results: The commonest unintentional injuries were, falls, and burns 11% of the children. The main causes were hot water (43%) and burning charcoal stoves/firewood. Predisposing factors to burns were residence in rural areas (OR 2.0; 95% CI: 1.1, 3.5) and having three or more siblings (OR 1.6; 95% CI: 0.9, 2.8) .. 40% of the well off mothers and those with at least 8 years of education were more likely to report their child injuries. ((OR: 1.7; 95% CI 1.0, 2.9) and (OR 1.5; 95% CI 1.0, 2.2) respectively). Conclusion: The prevalence of unintentional injuries among children of this cohort of mothers was high, caused by burns, falls, poisoning and animal bites .

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Childhood accident prevention strategies

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

Integrating child injury and abuse-neglect research: Common histories, etiologies, and solutions.

Integrating child injury and abuse-neglect research: Common histories, etiologies, and solutions.

Complacency, misdirection, and effective prevention of children's injuries.

Prevalence of child injuries in Mbale region, Eastern Uganda

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