Citation

Cataldo MF, Finney JW, Richman GS, Riley AW, Hook RJ, Brophy CJ, Nau PA. J. Pediatr. Psychol. 1992; 17(1): 73-80.

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1545322

Abstract

Compared the behavior of parents and their previously injured children with parents and their uninjured children in unstructured play and distracted parent conditions. Injured children were more disruptive, more active, and had more contacts with hazards, whereas uninjured children had more appropriate behavior. Parents of injured children had lower rates of play activities. Observable classes of parent and child behaviors amenable to change were associated with a history of child injury. Further study is needed to assess the use of safe and unsafe behavior as proxy measures for injuries and to identify functional classes of safe and unsafe behavior for which active strategies can be developed to prevent children's injuries.

Language: en