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Why parents do not provide automobile restraints for their children
Author(s) -
GEDDIS DAVID C.,
SPEARS GEORGE F.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1980.tb01275.x
Subject(s) - medicine , car seat , government (linguistics) , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , poison control , pediatrics , family medicine , environmental health , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , pathology , automotive engineering
Abstract If children in cars were adequately restrained many deaths and injuries would be prevented. Currently in New Zealand only 17% of children 0–8 years are appropriately restrained. Questionnaires about child car restraints were completed by 3,288 mothers who had a child 0 to 8 years of age. Eighty‐six per cent of the mothers drove at least twice a week while the child was with them. Overall, 52% claimed to always or usually use some form of approved child car restraint. The numbers varied with the age of the child. The reasons parents gave for not using a child car restraint could be place in 2 groups — those which could be changed through altering public attitudes (58%), and those which suggest a need for co‐operation between government, car manufacturers and car seat manufacturers (42%). A significant association (P<0.001) was found between people who claimed to use restraints and those who favoured the compulsory use of restraints.