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The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use
INTRODUCTION: The behaviour of parents in ensuring car passenger safety for their children is associated with socio-economic (SE) status of the family; however, the influence of parental education has rarely been researched and the findings are contradictory. The aim of the study was to clarify whet...
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De Gruyter
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28289464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2017-0008 |
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author | Rok Simon, Mateja Korošec, Aleš Bilban, Marjan |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The behaviour of parents in ensuring car passenger safety for their children is associated with socio-economic (SE) status of the family; however, the influence of parental education has rarely been researched and the findings are contradictory. The aim of the study was to clarify whether parental education influences the use of a child car seat during short rides. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in outpatient clinics for children’s healthcare across Slovenia. 904 parents of 3-year-old children participated in the study; the response rate was 95.9%. A self-administered questionnaire was used. A binary multiple logistic regression was applied to assess the association between parental unsafe behaviour as dependent variable, and education and other SE factors as independent variables. RESULTS: 14.6% of parents did not use a child car seat during short rides. Families where mother had low or college education had higher odds of the non-use of a child car seat than families where mother had a university education. Single-parent families and those who lived in areas with low or medium SE status also had higher odds of the non-use of a child car seat. CONCLUSIONS: Low educational attainment influences parents’ behaviour regarding the non-use of a child car seat. Low parental education is not the only risk factor since some highly educated parents also have high odds of unsafe behaviour. All parents should therefore be included in individually tailored safety counselling programmes. SE inequalities could be further reduced with provision of free child car seats for eligible families. |
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spelling | pubmed-53297862017-03-13 The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use Rok Simon, Mateja Korošec, Aleš Bilban, Marjan Zdr Varst Original Scientific Article INTRODUCTION: The behaviour of parents in ensuring car passenger safety for their children is associated with socio-economic (SE) status of the family; however, the influence of parental education has rarely been researched and the findings are contradictory. The aim of the study was to clarify whether parental education influences the use of a child car seat during short rides. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out in outpatient clinics for children’s healthcare across Slovenia. 904 parents of 3-year-old children participated in the study; the response rate was 95.9%. A self-administered questionnaire was used. A binary multiple logistic regression was applied to assess the association between parental unsafe behaviour as dependent variable, and education and other SE factors as independent variables. RESULTS: 14.6% of parents did not use a child car seat during short rides. Families where mother had low or college education had higher odds of the non-use of a child car seat than families where mother had a university education. Single-parent families and those who lived in areas with low or medium SE status also had higher odds of the non-use of a child car seat. CONCLUSIONS: Low educational attainment influences parents’ behaviour regarding the non-use of a child car seat. Low parental education is not the only risk factor since some highly educated parents also have high odds of unsafe behaviour. All parents should therefore be included in individually tailored safety counselling programmes. SE inequalities could be further reduced with provision of free child car seats for eligible families. De Gruyter 2016-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5329786/ /pubmed/28289464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2017-0008 Text en © 2016 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. |
spellingShingle | Original Scientific Article Rok Simon, Mateja Korošec, Aleš Bilban, Marjan The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title | The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title_full | The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title_fullStr | The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title_full_unstemmed | The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title_short | The influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
title_sort | influence of parental education and other socio-economic factors on child car seat use |
topic | Original Scientific Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28289464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjph-2017-0008 |
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