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Preventing childhood accidents in the home: Parental behavior to reduce household hazards
Author(s) -
THUEN FRODE
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1992.tb00925.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , psychology , health belief model , occupational safety and health , environmental health , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , injury prevention , variance (accounting) , proportional hazards model , poison control , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , public health , health promotion , nursing , philosophy , linguistics , accounting , pathology , business , surgery
The parents of all children between 6 and 18 months in four Norwegian municipalities participated in an investigation to assess to what extent parents take actions to reduce household hazards their children are exposed to, and to identify factors associated with such behaviors. The Health Belief Model was used as a theoretical framework guiding the selection of variables. The results indicate that most parents take considerable action to reduce household hazards. The constructs derived from the Health Belief Model accounted for only a small part of the variance in parental behavior to reduce hazards in the home.