title: Parents' safety beliefs and childhood agricultural injury.
abstract: 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.
authors: Regional Injury Prevention Research Center, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
authors: Muree
authors: M
authors: Larson-Bright
authors: Susan G
authors: SG
authors: Gerberich
authors: Ann S
authors: AS
authors: Masten
authors: Bruce H
authors: BH
authors: Alexander
authors: James G
authors: JG
authors: Gurney
authors: Timothy R
authors: TR
authors: Church
authors: Andrew D
authors: AD
authors: Ryan
authors: Colleen M
authors: CM
authors: Renier
mesh_terms: 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