Childhood Household Safety

Dershewitz, Robert A.; Christophersen, Edward R.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1984.02140390073022

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“…Behavioral approaches to injury prevention can include active countermeasures (health promotion and strategies to change behavior) along with passive strategies (safety standards for toys and playground equipment; improved fire detection devices in homes) (Dershewitz & Christopherson, 1984;Gallagher et al, 1985;Rivara, 1982;Roberts & Turner, 1986, Rodriguez & Brown, 1990. Although much of the injury-prevention field initially was and remains excited about passive co~rol approaches, there is growing recognition that many passive strategies demand action for implementation by involved, informed parents (Berfenstaum, 1979;Dershewitz & Christopherson, 1984;Rivara & Mueller, 1987;Roberts, Fanurick, & Layfield, 1987). The requirements of flame-retardant sleepwear and child-resistant caps on drugs are examples of passive child safety strategies that work without great parental involvement, yet even in these successful cases, parents with low knowledge can inadvertently inhibit these protections by letting young children sleep in T-shirts or putting pills in other containers to make it easier for the parent to open them.…”

Section: Family Social and Behavioral Factors That Influence Injurymentioning

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Unintentional injury: A major health problem for young children and youth

Kronenfeld

Glik

1995

J Fam Econ Iss

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ABSTRACT" This article reviews data on childhood injury and explains how unintentional injuries have become the leading health problem for young children in the United States and a major health problem in teenage years. The article discusses the major types of childhood injuries, trends over time, and variations by location and social, behavioral, and familial risk factors. Results of epidemiological and sociobehavioral research on injury are followed by a discussion of policy considerations in the attempts to deal with childhood injury and its consequences. This includes a discussion of major ways to prevent injuries, a review of government activities, and recommendations for future efforts.

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Section: Family Social and Behavioral Factors That Influence Injurymentioning

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Unintentional injury: A major health problem for young children and youth

Kronenfeld

Glik

1995

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…The data on such training for people of normal intelligence are also scanty. Several studies have demonstrated that getting middle-class parents to ado t safety measures is very difficult (Dershewitz and Wilriamson, 1977;Dershewitz, 1979Dershewitz, ,1984Fergusson et al, 1982). Nonetheless, this is a critical area of intervention (Rivera, 1982;The Select Panel, 1981).…”

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Assessing emergency responses of people with mental handicaps: AN ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT

Tymchuk¹

1990

Journal of the British Institute of Mental Handicap (APEX)

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In order to function independently, people with mental handicaps require knowledge and skills in many areas. One of the most critical areas, especially for parents with mental handicaps who are caring for their children, is how to respond in the case in common emergencies. This article describes and presents an instrument which can be used to assess people's initial knowledge and skills in coping with common household emergencies, as well as to evaluatae the effectiveness of training in appropriate emergency responses.

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“…3,4 Accidents are the end result of innumerable factors. 5 They include age, sex, personality, intelligence, imitation and parental example. They are related to the child's stage of development, mobility, ability to reach for objects, to climb, his desire to learn and explore and above all his inability to know from experience the consequences of what he is doing.…”

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Profile of accidental injuries and poisoning in children and analysis of the predisposing factors

Meenakshi¹,

Senthilprabhu

2017

Int J Res Med Sci

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Background: Accidents continue to be the leading cause of death and disability between 1 year and 15year age group. Trauma lurks both developed and developing nations but in different guises. The aim is to determine the epidemiology, clinical profile and outcome of children with accidental injuries and poisoning and to analyse the factors predisposing to accidents in children.Methods: This was a prospective cohort study done at Institute of Social Pediatrics, Govt. Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India between September 2006 to August 2007.Results: Most common age group for occurrence of accident is less than 3 years n=68 (37.8%). Male children 108 (60%) outnumbered female children 72 (40%). Among the accidents falls accounted for 32.8% cases which were the commonest followed by Road Traffic Accident (RTA) 22.2%, poisoning 21.1%, Foreign body 7.8%, Burns 6.1%, Drowning 1.7 % in decreasing order of frequency. In and around Home n=114 (63.3%) was the commonest place of occurrence of accident followed by 26.7% in streets, 3.9% in schools and 3.3% in playground. Sunday contributes to more accidents (20%) than any other day. Accidents were common between 3PM to 6 PM (36.1%). Among RTA and fall, skeletal injuries accounted for 49.9% followed by head injury 27.4%, and soft tissue injuries 25.6%. Among burns, the most common site involved was limbs and deep burns were more common than superficial burns. 86.7% of cases recovered completely, 5% had permanent residual deformity and death in 1.1% of cases. The various social factors were analyzed as risk factors for accidents using multivariate logistic regression analysis and was found that nuclear family had ODD’s ratio of 2.232 (95% C.I 1.004 -4.961), age of the mother <25years with ODD’s ratio 1.252 (95% C.I 1.085-3.025) and socio-economic class III and IV together with ODD’s ratio 1.603 (95% C.I 1.064 - 3.379).Conclusions: Accidents and poisoning lead to significant morbidity in children in this study. Comprehensive prevention strategies need to be implemented to bring down the rate of accidents.

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Childhood Household Safety

Cited by 36 publications

References 12 publications

Unintentional injury: A major health problem for young children and youth

Unintentional injury: A major health problem for young children and youth

Assessing emergency responses of people with mental handicaps: AN ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT

Profile of accidental injuries and poisoning in children and analysis of the predisposing factors

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