Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot. 2009 Dec;16(4):231-7. doi: 10.1080/17457300903308308.
This study examines safety seat use among Canadian children and evaluates child safety seat use relative to the national policy for child occupant safety, Road Safety Vision 2010. Using a probability sample, roadside observations of car safety seat use were collected from May to October of 2006 for 13,500 children aged from birth to 9 years in 10,084 vehicles at 182 sites in nine Canadian provinces and one territory. Observations revealed that 89.9% of Canadian children were restrained in some type of restraint. However, only 60.5% of these children were restrained in the correct safety seat. When comparing rates of correct use across provinces, results were not significantly different in provinces with booster seat legislation and those without this legislation. This data may be useful for healthcare practitioners and policy makers to develop interventions aimed at increasing appropriate car safety seat use for children in Canada.
本研究调查了加拿大儿童使用安全座椅的情况，并评估了儿童安全座椅的使用情况与 2010 年道路安全愿景中针对儿童乘客安全的国家政策的相关性。研究人员采用概率抽样方法，于 2006 年 5 月至 10 月，在加拿大 9 个省和 1 个地区的 182 个地点，对 10084 辆载有 13500 名 0 至 9 岁儿童的汽车进行了路边观察，以收集汽车安全座椅使用情况。观察结果显示，89.9%的加拿大儿童使用了某种类型的约束装置。然而，只有 60.5%的儿童使用了正确的安全座椅。在比较各省正确使用的比率时，有和没有 booster seat 立法的省份之间没有显著差异。这些数据可能对医疗保健从业者和政策制定者制定干预措施，以增加加拿大儿童使用汽车安全座椅的合适性有用。
