TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Is it only 'safe' families who request home safety checks?
JO  - International journal of health promotion and education
A1  - Kendrick, Denise
A1  - Hapgood, R.
A1  - Marsh, P.
SP  - 134
EP  - 137
VL  - 38
IS  - 4
N2  - Objective: To assess the self-reported safety practices of parents who did, and did not, request home safety checks.<br />  Design: Cross-sectional survey.<br />  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.<br />  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.<br />  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.
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SN  - 1463-5240
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -