Parents' safety beliefs and childhood agricultural injury.
BACKGROUND
This study examined potential associations between parental safety beliefs and children's chore assignments or risk of agricultural injury.


METHODS
Analyses were based on nested case-control data collected by the 1999 and 2001 Regional Rural Injury Study-II (RRIS-II) surveillance efforts. Cases (n = 425, reporting injuries) and controls (n = 1,886, no injuries; selected using incidence density sampling) were persons younger than 20 years of age from Midwestern agricultural households. A causal model served as the basis for multivariate data analysis.


RESULTS
Decreased risks of injury (odds ratio [OR] and 95% confidence intervals [CI]) were observed for working-aged children with "moderate," compared to "very strict" parental monitoring (0.60; 0.40-0.90), and with parents believing in the importance of physical (0.80; 0.60-0.95) and cognitive readiness (0.70, 0.50-0.90, all children; 0.30, 0.20-0.50, females) when assigning new tasks. Parents' safety beliefs were not associated with chore assignments.


CONCLUSIONS
Parents' safety beliefs were associated with reduced risk of childhood agricultural injury; the association was not mediated by chore assignments.
Larson-Bright
Muree
M
Regional Injury Prevention Research Center, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Gerberich
Susan G
SG
Masten
Ann S
AS
Alexander
Bruce H
BH
Gurney
James G
JG
Church
Timothy R
TR
Ryan
Andrew D
AD
Renier
Colleen M
CM
D000293:Adolescent; D000383:Agriculture; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010290:Parents; D012424:Rural Population; D012449:Safety; D055815:Young Adult