School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Inj Prev. 2019 Oct;25(5):438-443. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043272. Epub 2019 Aug 28.
Parental attitudes regarding child safety and risk engagement play important roles in child injury prevention and health promotion efforts. Few studies have compared mothers' and fathers' attitudes on these topics. This study used the risk engagement and protection survey (REPS) previously validated with fathers to compare with data collected from mothers.
Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used with a sample of 234 mothers and 282 fathers. Eligible parents had a child 6-12 years attending a paediatric hospital for an injury-related or other reason. We tested the factor structure of the survey by examining configural, metric and scalar invariance. Following this, mothers' and fathers' mean scores on the two identified factors of child injury protection and risk engagement were compared.
Comparing mothers' and fathers' data showed the two-factor structure of the REPS held for the mothers' data. Comparing mean scores for the two factors suggested that fathers and mothers held equivalent attitudes. For the combined sample, parent injury protection attitude scores were significantly higher for daughters versus sons. In addition, attitude scores were significantly lower for injury protection and higher for risk engagement among parents born in Canada compared with those who were not.
The REPS allows for valid assessment of injury protection and risk engagement factors for fathers and mothers. Mothers conceptualised the two factors as distinct concepts, similar to fathers. The REPS can be used to inform parenting programme development, implementation and evaluation.
父母对儿童安全和风险参与的态度在儿童伤害预防和健康促进工作中起着重要作用。很少有研究比较过母亲和父亲在这些主题上的态度。本研究使用了先前经过父亲验证的风险参与和保护调查（REPS），并将其与从母亲那里收集的数据进行了比较。
使用多组验证性因素分析对 234 名母亲和 282 名父亲进行了分析。合格的父母有一个 6-12 岁的孩子，因与伤害相关的原因或其他原因在儿科医院就诊。我们通过检查配置、度量和标度不变性来检验调查的因子结构。在此之后，我们比较了母亲和父亲在识别出的儿童伤害保护和风险参与两个因子上的平均得分。
比较母亲和父亲的数据表明，REPS 的两因素结构适用于母亲的数据。比较两个因素的平均得分表明，父亲和母亲持有相同的态度。对于合并样本，与儿子相比，女儿的父母伤害保护态度得分显著更高。此外，与非加拿大出生的父母相比，加拿大出生的父母的伤害保护态度得分显著较低，而风险参与态度得分显著较高。
REPS 允许对父亲和母亲的伤害保护和风险参与因素进行有效的评估。母亲将这两个因素概念化为不同的概念，与父亲相似。REPS 可用于为育儿计划的制定、实施和评估提供信息。
