Parents’ Safety Beliefs, Children’s Work Practices and Childhood Agricultural Injury

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• Personal Author:
  Larson-Bright MLK ; Larson-Bright MLK
• Description:
  Family-run agricultural operations are exempt from most federal labor and safety standards, leaving parents solely responsible for monitoring children's exposures to agricultural hazards and keeping them safe. Despite the parents' pivotal role, research on parental determinants of childhood agricultural injury is lacking. This study evaluated whether children's agricultural work practices increased the risk of childhood agricultural injury, parents' safety beliefs reduced the risk of agricultural injury and were associated with chore assignments, and whether child and parent covariates predicted injury, work practices, or safety beliefs. Analyses were based on nested case-control data, collected by the Regional Rural Injury Study-II (RRIS-II) surveillance effort in 1999 and 2001, using computer-assisted telephone interviews. Cases (n = 425) and controls (n = 1886) were persons younger than 20 years of age from Midwestern agricultural households. All injury events were selected as cases; controls were selected using incidence density sampling. Using multivariate logistic regression, increased risks of injury were observed for children who: performed any agricultural work (odds ratio [OR] = 3.9, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.6-5.6); performed 7-10 chores per month compared to one chore (2.2, 1.3-3.5); worked 11-30 or 31-40 hours per week compared to 1-10 hours (1.6, 1.2-2.1 and 22, 1.3-3.7, respectively); and, performed chores an average of two-three years younger than recommended compared to performing "age-appropriate" chores (2.6, 1.44.5). Decreased risks of injury were observed for: non-working children compared to children performing minimal/safe levels of agricultural work; "moderate" versus "very strict" parental monitoring (0.70, 0.54-0.97); children of parents whose beliefs about the importance of physical readiness were more conservative (0.90, 0.70-0.99); and for females (0.50, 0.40-0.8) and working aged children (7-16 years of age, 0.70, 0.50-0.90) of parents whose beliefs about the importance of cognitive readiness were more conservative. Parents' safety beliefs were not associated with chore assignments. This study is be first to use population-based case-control data to evaluate the risk of childhood agricultural injury associated with performing developmentally inappropriate chores and parental safety beliefs. Results suggest that the efficacy of age restrictions and parental safety beliefs for preventing the occurrence of childhood agricultural injuries warrants further evaluation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Behavior Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Epidemiology Family Farmers Herbicides Insecticides Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Analytical-processes Biological-effects Children Environmental-exposure Environmental-factors Environmental-hazards Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Exposure-methods Families Health-surveys Injury-prevention Mathematical-models Medical-surveys Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Quantitative-analysis Questionnaires Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Standards Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health Workers

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• ISBN:
  9780542813993
• Publisher:
  University of Minnesota
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Dissertation ; Dissertation
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-287
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037603
• Citation:
  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, PhD Dissertation, 2006 Feb; :1-287
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Parents' safety beliefs, children's work practices and childhood agricultural injury
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9eb905c6a9dd58b52ccee9658c7bcec637349cf11e29d4c69f74e05aeec40d4e17594fa0924b3d37d557f75bc63ec7237d9aac40ce3e6d3df99121a055b033bd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188673/cdc_188673_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 6.33 MB ]