Validity and reliability of responses to a self-report home safety survey designed for use in a community-based child injury prevention programme

Yorkston, Emily; Turner, Catherine; Schlüter, Philip J.; McClure, Roderick John

doi:10.1080/1566097042000265791

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“…There is evidence of good internal consistency and test-retest reliability for self-report data. However, the evidence regarding validity, while still relatively positive, is less encouraging, with respondents showing a tendency to overestimate their self-reported safety behaviours in comparison to the observed rates of behaviour (Mason, Christoffel, & Sinacore, 2007;Yorkston, Turner, Schluter, & McClure, 2005). In our study there is no real way of telling how much social desirability has influenced responses.…”

Section: Limitationscontrasting

confidence: 74%

Parental beliefs about supervising children when crossing roads and cycling

Soole

Lennon

Haworth

2011

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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Pedestrian and cyclist injuries are significant public health issues, together accounting for 11-30% of road deaths in highly motorised countries. Children are particularly at risk. In Australia in 2009 11.4% of pedestrian deaths and 6.4% of cyclist deaths comprised children aged 0-16 years. Parental attitudes and level of supervision are important to children's road safety. Results from a telephone survey with parents of children 5-9 years (N = 147) are reported. Questions addressed beliefs about preventability of injury, appropriate ages for children to cross the road or cycle independently and the frequency of holding 5-9 year old children's hands while crossing the road. Results suggest that parents believe most injuries are preventable and that they personally can act to improve their own safety in the home, on the road, at work, as well as in or on the water. Most parents (68%) indicated children should be 10 years or older before crossing the road or cycling independently. Parents were more likely to report holding younger children's hands (5-6 years) when crossing the road and less likely to do so for 7- to 9-year olds. There was a small effect of child gender, with parents more likely to hold a boy's hand than that of a girl.

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Section: Limitationscontrasting

confidence: 74%

Parental beliefs about supervising children when crossing roads and cycling

Soole

Lennon

Haworth

2011

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

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“…Previous research indicates that comparable information in injury studies can be collected via these mixed modes [24]. …”

Section: Design Methods and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Population based case–control study of serious non-fatal motorcycle crashes

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BackgroundMotorcycle sales, registration and use are increasing in many countries. The epidemiological literature on risk factors for motorcycle injury is becoming outdated, due to changes in rider demography, licensing regulations, traffic mix and density, road environments, and motorcycle designs and technologies. Further, the potential contribution of road infrastructure and travel speed has not yet been examined.Methods/designA population based case–control study together with a nested case-crossover study is planned. Cases will be motorcycle riders who are injured but not killed in a motorcycle crash on a public road within 150 km radius of Melbourne, Australia, and admitted to one of the study hospitals. Controls will be motorcycle riders who ride through the crash site on the same type of day (weekday or weekend) within an hour of the crash time. Data on rider, bike, and trip characteristics will be collected from the participants by questionnaire. Data on crash site characteristics will be collected in a structured site inspection, and travel speed for the cases will be estimated from these data. Travel speed for the controls will be measured prior to recruitment with a radar traffic detection device as they ride through the crash site. Control sites for the case-crossover study will be selected 1 km upstream from the crash site and matched on either intersection status or road curvature (either straight or cornered). If the initial site selected does not match the case site on these characteristics, then the closest matching site on the case route will be selected. Conditional multivariate logistic regression models will be used to compare risk between the matched case and control riders and to examine associations between road infrastructure and road environment characteristics and crash occurrence. Interactions between type of site and speed will be tested to determine if site type is an effect modifier of the relationship between speed and crash risk. The relationship between rider factors and travel speed generally will be assessed by multivariate regression methods.DiscussionIn the context of the changing motorcycling environment, this study will provide evidence on contemporary risk factors for serious non-fatal motorcycle crashes.

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“…The reason for this discrepancy could likely be the setting of the initial interview, via telephone in advance of the home observation in the 2003 study as opposed to in the home at the time of home observation in the present study. The validity of respondent-reported home safety behaviours has been seen to decrease when questions are asked over telephone rather than in the home 7 8 10. Overall, self-report of SA coverage has shown troublingly low validity, and research that needs to rely on self-report to evaluate programmes or monitor trends should bear in mind the degree to which there is error in such measurement, especially with regard to which population groups may be at increased risk for incorrectly reporting their levels of protection.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%