title: Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and perception of risk.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The WARE Scale has high internal consistency reliability (alpha = .89). Parents underestimated scenarios with high injury/death rates and overestimated scenarios with low injury/death rates.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Risk estimation measures such as the WARE Scale have great potential as research tools and may be modified to suit researchers' needs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Community Health and Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA. willke@evms.edu
authors.forename: Kelli England
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Will
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lorek
authors.forename: Cynthia Shier
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Sabo
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kidd