title: [Mode of transport by car of 6-12-year-old children in Florence].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the use, during transport by car, of restraint/booster seats by children of 6-12 years old in Florence.
  
  
  METHODS
  To examine children's use, knowledge and behaviors regarding safety devices in cars, a questionnaire has been administered to 537 students attending 17 primary schools in Florence, during their visit to an area equipped for street education. Sociodemographic data (nationality, level of education and parents' work) have been collected as well to assess the socioeconomic membership. Collected data have been analyzed using SPSS 17.0. Chi squared test has been used to evaluate differences in the frequency of distribution of the use of safety devices by available variables. Univariate and multivariate logistic regressions have been used to calculate the degree of association among the modes of transport and the available variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prevalence of use of restraint/booster seats, risk of having been incorrectly transported.
  
  
  RESULTS
  39.1% children, during the last travel, has been correctly transported, i.e. on the booster seat with fastened seat belt, 38.0% only with fastened seat belt and 22.9% free.The risky behaviors were not so much related to socioeconomic indices, but rather to some geographical variables and parents' nationality (especially of the mother).Children whose parents were both Italian were more frequently transported correctly compared to foreigners. We also observed peculiar and different modes of transport within specific ethnic minorities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is necessary to design and implement interventions aimed at promoting interventions for improving safety for the whole population, but with specific safeguarding social and territorial specificities as regards to territory and ethnicity.
authors: Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze. chiara.lorini@unifi.it
authors: Chiara
authors: C
authors: Lorini
authors: Guendalina
authors: G
authors: Allodi
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Indiani
authors: Elettra
authors: E
authors: Pellegrino
authors: Federico
authors: F
authors: Mannocci
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Mersi
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Petrioli
authors: Maria Grazia
authors: MG
authors: Santini
authors: Giorgio
authors: G
authors: Garofalo
authors: Guglielmo
authors: G
authors: Bonaccorsi
mesh_terms: D001336:Automobiles; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires