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Categorizing mothers' and fathers' conceptualizations of children's serious play‐related injuries: “You won't grow a finger back”
Author(s) -
Bauer Michelle E. E.,
Brussoni Mariana,
Giles Audrey R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/cch.12761
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , operationalization , reflexivity , intervention (counseling) , construct (python library) , psychology , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , injury prevention , poison control , medicine , qualitative research , sociology , psychiatry , medical emergency , social science , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , programming language
Background There is inconsistency across child development and care literature in operationalizing serious play‐related injury and also a lack of understanding of how mothers and fathers conceptualize serious play‐related injury. The current study explores parents' perspectives of their 2‐ to 7‐year‐old children's serious play‐related injuries in urban and rural areas of British Columbia and Québec, Canada, and provides an urban/rural and gender analysis of the results. Methods We conducted semistructured interviews with 41 mothers and 63 fathers from 57 families, a total of 104 participants, in urban and rural locations in British Columbia and Québec, Canada. We used a social constructionist approach to the research and reflexive thematic analysis to construct themes from participant responses and to inform the consequent categorizations of serious play‐related injury. Results The results indicate four categories of parents' conceptualizations of serious play‐related injury: (a) injury requiring medical intervention, (b) injury resulting in head trauma, (c) injury resulting in debilitation, and (d) broken bones. Conclusions Child development and care advocates can use these categories to strengthen their communications with parents and to improve understanding of parents' conceptualizations of children's serious play‐related injury.