Citation

Hsu JS, Williams SD. Am. J. Public Health 1991; 81(11): 1466-1468.

Affiliation

University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132.

Comment In:

Am J Public Health 1992;82(9):1295-6.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1951803

PMCID

PMC1405666

Abstract

The injury-related mortality rate for Native American children between the ages of 1 and 4 years is nearly three times that of the same age group in the general population. To assess injury prevention awareness in urban Native American families, we administered 39 age-appropriate questions from the Framingham Safety Survey to 50 Native American families and 100 other families and developed an answer scoring system to analyze and compare survey responses. Survey responses revealed that Native American families are less likely to keep small objects, household products, and medicines out of the reach of their children and to possess and understand the use of ipecac. Although urban Native-American families appear to be less aware of ingestion prevention practices than other urban families, these and other deficiencies in injury prevention awareness are more likely the result of factors related to their low-income status than to culturally based practices.

Language: en