Factors Influencing Parental Use of Booster Seats for Their Children

Bracchitta, Kristi

doi:10.1007/s10880-006-9023-x

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“…Sociodemographic influences, including education and income level have all been associated with booster seat use. It has been commonly reported that parents of lower income and education levels report lower rates of booster seat use in comparison with those of higher socioeconomic status 14 15 18 19…”

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“…Although many researchers have examined the factors associated with booster seat use, much of the evidence has neglected to explore the complexity of the association comprehensively among levels of social and individual influences affecting parents' booster seat use;9 15 for example, social influences that include legislation and peer influence, and individual influences that include parent knowledge and children's views towards booster seat use. Examining all factors, in combination, which may influence parents' choices in booster seat use may support the development of interventions that encourage parents to use booster seats consistently.…”

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“…The Robinson et al15 study mentioned previously concluded that African-American parents were the population least likely to choose the correct picture. Bracchitta found similar results, reporting that African-American mothers had the lowest scores on the child passenger safety questions involved in the study 13. Additional research performed by Safe Kids USA illustrates that children 14 years and younger who are of the American Indian and Alaska Native ethnicity are almost one and a half times more likely than white children to die in a motor vehicle crash.…”

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“…The educational level of the female caregiver has been found to be the highest predictor of child restraint knowledge and correct installation – even more than socioeconomic levels 13. The Snowdon study also found that with every increase in education level, the percentage of correct use increased 12…”

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Protecting children: a survey of caregivers’ knowledge of Georgia’s child restraint laws

Strasser¹,

Whorton²,

Walpole³

et al. 2010

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IntroductionThe leading cause of injury and death among children in the United States is motor vehicle crashes. Even though restraint laws are in place and public awareness campaigns and educational interventions have increased, many children are still improperly restrained or not restrained at all. When correctly used, child restraints significantly reduce risk of injury or death.MethodsThe purpose of the study was to elicit caregiver baseline knowledge of car seat installation and regulation before receiving car seat education from certified technicians at Inspection Station events. Inspection Station is a program whereby staff assists parents in correctly positioning car seats in participants’ vehicles. Over an 8-week period, Safe Kids Cobb County Car Seat Technicians distributed a 16-item survey, with 10 knowledge-based questions and six demographic questions to Inspection Station participants. Descriptive statistics and t-tests were conducted to assess relationships between participant age, ethnicity, and gender with overall knowledge scores. Regression analysis was run to determine the association between participant education level and total child restraint knowledge.ResultsOne hundred sixty-nine surveys were completed. Participant knowledge of vehicular child restraint ranged from 0% to 90% on all items. Only 29.6% of caregivers understood the proper tightness of the harness system. Less than half of the caregivers (43.8%) were aware of the Georgia law requiring children aged 6 years and younger to be in some type of child restraint. Only 43.2% of caregivers surveyed knew that children need to ride in a rear-facing child restraint until 1 year of age and 20 pounds. No significant correlations between participant knowledge and age were found. Statistically significant associations were found between total knowledge scores and education level, ethnicity, and gender.DiscussionThe results from this study describe baseline knowledge among a sample of participants at Inspection Station activities held in Cobb County, Georgia. These results can help inform tailoring of future programming so that the impact of enhanced health education/prevention messages for intended populations can be maximized and health child injury risk related to improper restraints can be minimized.

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“…Bracchitta (2006) mentions child resistance as a potential factor in declining booster seat use with age, although other factors such as (a lack of) legislation may play a role too (Bingham et al 2006). Hence, restraint transitions based on age milestones may also provide a useful tool in overcoming child resistance to the use of appropriate restraints.…”

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Optimising product advice based on age when design criteria are based on weight: child restraints in vehicles

Anderson

Hutchinson

2009

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The motivation for this paper is the high rate of inappropriate child restraint selection in cars that is apparent in published surveys of child restraint use and how the public health messages promoting child restraints might respond. Advice has increasingly been given solely according to the child's weight, while many parents do not know the weight of their children. A common objection to promoting restraint use based on the age of the child is the imprecision of such advice, given the variation in the size of children, but the magnitude of the misclassification such advice would produce has never been estimated. This paper presents a method for estimating the misclassification of children by weight, when advice is posed in terms of age, and applies it to detailed child growth data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Australia, guidelines instructing all parents to promote their children from an infant restraint to a forward-facing child seat at 6 months, and then to a belt-positioning booster at 4 years, would mean that 5% of all children under the age of 6 years would be using a restraint not suited to their weight. Coordination of aged-based advice and the weight ranges chosen for the Australian Standard on child restraints could reduce this level of misclassification to less than 1%. The general method developed may also be applied to other aspects of restraint design that are more directly relevant to good restraint fit.

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Factors Influencing Parental Use of Booster Seats for Their Children

Cited by 10 publications

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Predicting parents' use of booster seats

Predicting parents' use of booster seats

Protecting children: a survey of caregivers’ knowledge of Georgia’s child restraint laws

Optimising product advice based on age when design criteria are based on weight: child restraints in vehicles

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Factors Influencing Parental Use of Booster Seats for Their Children

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Predicting parents' use of booster seats

Predicting parents' use of booster seats

Protecting children: a survey of caregivers&rsquo; knowledge of Georgia&rsquo;s child restraint laws

Optimising product advice based on age when design criteria are based on weight: child restraints in vehicles

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Protecting children: a survey of caregivers’ knowledge of Georgia’s child restraint laws