@article{ref1,
title="Pregnant women's intentions to implement safety practices for preventing infant injury: a cross-sectional study",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2021",
author="Honda, Chikako and Naruse, Takashi and Yamamoto-Mitani, Noriko",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="e24-e24",
abstract="Injury prevention education for pregnant women may be beneficial for infants' safety. Currently, knowledge about the scope of an expectant mother's intent to  prevent injury is limited. The objective of this study was to determine pregnant  women's intentions to implement infant injury prevention strategies. From May to  June 2017, a self-administered questionnaire based on the precaution adoption  process model was distributed among pregnant women who participated in a parenting  preparation class in a city, Tokyo. Pregnant women's intentions to implement the  following eight kinds of safety practices were measured: three practices regarding  suffocation, two regarding falls, one safety practice for burns, one for accidental  ingestion, and one for traffic accidents. Among 132 respondents (response rate:  83.5%; mean age: 33.4 years; mean gestational age: 29 weeks), the most common  unawareness issue was &quot;Make sure that there is no space between the mattress and bed  frame&quot; (68.2%), followed by &quot;Use a firm mattress or futon&quot; (38.5%) and &quot;Keep soft  objects away from the baby's head in the baby's sleep area&quot; (31.8%); 58% or more  women reported having already &quot;decided to implement&quot; the other five practices. Safety practices that pregnant women were mostly unaware of were for preventing  suffocation, despite this being a leading cause of death in terms of unintentional  infant injury. In comparison, the safety practices for falls, burns, and accidental  ingestion were more known to pregnant women. The pregnant women's intention to  implement injury prevention for infants varied by safety practices. These findings  could be used to improve the focus of antenatal education programs for the  prevention of infant injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph18010024",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010024"
}