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Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a hospital-based educational program to increase child safety restraint knowledge and use among birthing mothers. METHODS: A prospective experimental and control study was performed in the Obstetrics department of hospitals. A total of 216 new birthing mothers from two hospita...
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4136798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25133502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105100 |
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author | Chen, Xiaojun Yang, Jingzhen Peek-Asa, Corinne Chen, Kangwen Liu, Xiangxiang Li, Liping |
author_facet | Chen, Xiaojun Yang, Jingzhen Peek-Asa, Corinne Chen, Kangwen Liu, Xiangxiang Li, Liping |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a hospital-based educational program to increase child safety restraint knowledge and use among birthing mothers. METHODS: A prospective experimental and control study was performed in the Obstetrics department of hospitals. A total of 216 new birthing mothers from two hospitals (114 from intervention hospital and 102 from comparison hospital) were recruited and enrolled in the study. Intervention mothers received a height chart, an 8-minute video and a folded pamphlet regarding child safety restraint use during their hospital stay after giving birth. Evaluation data on the child safety seat (CSS) awareness, attitudes, and use were collected among both groups before and after the intervention. An additional phone interview was conducted among the intervention mothers two months after discharge. RESULTS: No significant differences existed between groups when comparing demographics. Over 90% of the intervention mothers found the educational intervention to be helpful to some extent. A significantly higher percentage of mothers in the intervention than the comparison group reported that CSS are necessary and are the safest seating practice. Nearly 20% of the intervention mothers actually purchased CSS for their babies after the intervention. While in both the intervention and comparison group, over 80% of mothers identified the ages of two through five as needing CSS, fewer than 50% of both groups identified infants as needing CSS, even after the intervention. CONCLUSION: The results indicated that child safety restraint education implemented in hospitals helps increase birthing mothers' overall knowledge and use of CSS. Further efforts are needed to address specific age-related needs to promote car seats use among infants. |
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spelling | pubmed-41367982014-08-20 Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China Chen, Xiaojun Yang, Jingzhen Peek-Asa, Corinne Chen, Kangwen Liu, Xiangxiang Li, Liping PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a hospital-based educational program to increase child safety restraint knowledge and use among birthing mothers. METHODS: A prospective experimental and control study was performed in the Obstetrics department of hospitals. A total of 216 new birthing mothers from two hospitals (114 from intervention hospital and 102 from comparison hospital) were recruited and enrolled in the study. Intervention mothers received a height chart, an 8-minute video and a folded pamphlet regarding child safety restraint use during their hospital stay after giving birth. Evaluation data on the child safety seat (CSS) awareness, attitudes, and use were collected among both groups before and after the intervention. An additional phone interview was conducted among the intervention mothers two months after discharge. RESULTS: No significant differences existed between groups when comparing demographics. Over 90% of the intervention mothers found the educational intervention to be helpful to some extent. A significantly higher percentage of mothers in the intervention than the comparison group reported that CSS are necessary and are the safest seating practice. Nearly 20% of the intervention mothers actually purchased CSS for their babies after the intervention. While in both the intervention and comparison group, over 80% of mothers identified the ages of two through five as needing CSS, fewer than 50% of both groups identified infants as needing CSS, even after the intervention. CONCLUSION: The results indicated that child safety restraint education implemented in hospitals helps increase birthing mothers' overall knowledge and use of CSS. Further efforts are needed to address specific age-related needs to promote car seats use among infants. Public Library of Science 2014-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4136798/ /pubmed/25133502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105100 Text en © 2014 Chen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chen, Xiaojun Yang, Jingzhen Peek-Asa, Corinne Chen, Kangwen Liu, Xiangxiang Li, Liping Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title | Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title_full | Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title_fullStr | Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title_short | Hospital-Based Program to Increase Child Safety Restraint Use among Birthing Mothers in China |
title_sort | hospital-based program to increase child safety restraint use among birthing mothers in china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4136798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25133502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105100 |
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