Citation

Kendrick D, Hapgood R, Marsh P. Int. J. Health Promot. Educ. 2000; 38(4): 134-137.

Affiliation

Division of General Practice, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Clifton Blvd, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Institute of Health Education)

DOI

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Abstract

Objective: To assess the self-reported safety practices of parents who did, and did not, request home safety checks.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Subjects: Parents of children aged 3-12 months registered with practices participating in a controlled trial of injury prevention in primary care who responded to the survey and who did, and did not, request home safety checks.

Results: Parents who requested home safety checks were significantly more likely to report a range of unsafe practices and were less likely to report owning a stair gate or a smoke alarm. They reported a lower number of safe practices than parents not requesting a home safety check. Ethnicity, single parenthood and number of unsafe practices were independently associated with requesting home safety checks.

Conclusions: Parents reporting more unsafe practices are more likely to request home safety checks. Offering home safety checks in injury prevention programmes is unlikely to widen inequalities in child injury morbidity.