Peterson L, Farmer J, Kashani J H
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211.
Health Psychol. 1990;9(2):177-91. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.9.2.177.
Investigating parents' beliefs about injury prevention may yield important information for planning preventive interventions. A comprehensive description of parents' beliefs about injury prevention is presented in this study, and effects of child age and sex are described. In addition, a health belief model was successfully used to predict parent-reported teaching of safety skills and preventive environmental interventions. The model successfully cross-validated the prediction in two independent samples. Parents reported low feelings of susceptibility or worry about injury. The variables most associated with parental preventive endeavors were the belief that intervention can avoid injury, a realistically high appraisal of the amount of time involved, and feelings of high knowledge and competence to teach safety skills. Implications of these data for designing more effective behavioral interventions are described.
调查父母对伤害预防的看法可能会为规划预防干预措施提供重要信息。本研究全面描述了父母对伤害预防的看法，并阐述了儿童年龄和性别的影响。此外，健康信念模型成功用于预测父母报告的安全技能教学和预防性环境干预措施。该模型在两个独立样本中成功交叉验证了预测结果。父母报告称对受伤的易感性或担忧程度较低。与父母预防行为最相关的变量是相信干预可以避免受伤、对所需时间的现实高度评估以及对教授安全技能的高知识水平和能力的感觉。文中描述了这些数据对设计更有效行为干预措施的意义。
