Interactions Between Child Behavior Patterns and Parent Supervision: Implications for Children’s Risk of Unintentional Injury

Abstract

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children. Prior research has implicated both child behavioral attributes and parent supervisory patterns as risk factors. The present study assessed interactions between these two risk factors and determined whether supervision moderates the relation between child attributes and injury. Mothers completed questionnaire measures of child attributes and supervisory patterns and also recorded how they supervised their young child (2-5 years) at home on each of 10 randomly selected days within a 3-week period. Results provide support for the moderating effect of supervision: Supervision interacted with some child attributes to elevate children's risk of medically attended injury and with other attributes to decrease injury risk. Implications for preventing childhood injuries are discussed.

Stationery injuries in the upper aerodigestive system: Results from the Susy Safe Project

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The evaluation of two different parental training methods on maternal awareness and home safety behaviors for childhood injury prevention

“…6 However, there is contradictory evidence to indicate whether parental home safety education is effective in actual home safety behaviors and the decrease in the risk of injuries. In a previous study, the intervention group receiving a home safety education demonstrated a significantly higher average overall safety score at followup with telephone interviewing than the control group in a previous study.…”

“…Due to their increased susceptibilities, children are highly dependent on adult provision of a safe environment and protection from contact with hazards (5). Further, parental attitudes and behaviors are an important consideration in designing successful injury interventions (6). Therefore, prevention efforts directed to parents such as interactive education programs, home-based parent education programs, and the provision of safety devices free of charge or at reduced cost or the combination of these interventions have been conducted in recent years with the aim of the improvements of parental home safety behaviors (7)(8)(9).…”

A socio-ecological model for unintentional injuries in minorities: a case study of Arab Israeli children

“…The individual level Causes of injury on the individual level primarily include the child's attributes and the interaction with the agent and the environment. The child's developmental stage and attributes, such as clinical disorders, temperament traits and aspects of cognitive functioning, are major factors contributing to the odds of a specific injury occurring (Morrongiello, Klemencic, & Corbett, 2008). However, there is no evidence or reason to believe that Arab and Jewish children differ in their developmental characteristics or rates of temperament traits that would contribute to a difference in injury rate.…”