TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Health and safety in day care: Parental knowledge
JO  - Clinical pediatrics
A1  - Rassin, G. M.
A1  - Beach, P. S.
A1  - McCormick, David P.
A1  - Niebuhr, V. N.
A1  - Weller, S.
SP  - 344
EP  - 349
VL  - 30
IS  - 6
N2  - Because injuries and illnesses occur among children, even in licensed child care facilities, parents need to be aware of existing hazards. We developed a questionnaire to assess parental knowledge of 16 health and safety features in their child's care facility. These health and safety features were identified by parents, in a pilot study, as being the most important features in a child care facility. This questionnaire was completed by 91 parents who use day care. Parents were well-educated employees of a health care institution. Our results indicate that even well-educated parents often do not check child care facilities for health and safety features. Parents tolerated a mean of 9.3% of 16 unsafe features and did not know the status of 22.4% of the features. Fifteen percent of the children has been removed from their child care facility because of health and safety concerns, 7.7% reported an injury. Our results suggest that it is important that physicians, during well child visits, include discussions about health and safety issues in the day care environment.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-9228
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -