Wortel E, de Geus G H
TNO Institute of Preventive Health Care, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Health Educ Res. 1993 Jun;8(2):217-31. doi: 10.1093/her/8.2.217.
Home related injuries are a major threat to the health of pre-school children in the Netherlands. Many risk situations can only be avoided through parental safety behaviour, especially with measures taken to structure the child's environment. This study was meant to contribute to the information needed to develop a safety education programme directed at parents. Therefore, we assessed mothers' safety measures related to poisoning, burns and falls, the consistency between these measures within one type of accident, and their relation to the mothers' education. A written questionnaire was completed by 1129 mothers of pre-school children (response rate 84%). Results suggest that many of the safety measures taken by mothers have to be judged moderately safe or unsafe and therefore correction or development of these measures is needed. Furthermore, this study suggests that safety measures belonging to one type of accident are not consistent with one another. This implies that each measure has to be advocated separately. Moreover, there was no substantial evidence for a relation between the mothers' safety measures and their education. Safety educators, therefore, do not need to differentiate between mothers with different educational levels when designing programmes.
在家中发生的伤害对荷兰学龄前儿童的健康构成重大威胁。许多危险情况只能通过家长的安全行为来避免，特别是采取措施构建儿童的生活环境。本研究旨在为制定针对家长的安全教育计划提供所需信息。因此，我们评估了母亲们针对中毒、烧伤和跌倒所采取的安全措施，同一类事故中这些措施之间的一致性，以及它们与母亲教育程度的关系。1129名学龄前儿童的母亲填写了一份书面问卷（回复率84%）。结果表明，母亲们采取的许多安全措施只能被判定为中等安全或不安全，因此需要对这些措施进行纠正或改进。此外，本研究表明，同一类事故的安全措施之间并不一致。这意味着每项措施都必须单独倡导。此外，没有充分证据表明母亲的安全措施与她们的教育程度之间存在关联。因此，安全教育工作者在设计计划时无需区分不同教育水平的母亲。
