Parents' safety beliefs and childhood agricultural injury

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• Personal Author:
  Alexander BH ; Church, Timothy R. ; Gerberich, Susan G. ; Gurney JG ; Larson-Bright M ; Masten AS ; Renier CM ; Ryan, Andrew D. ; Alexander BH ; Church, Timothy R. ; Gerberich, Susan G. ; Gurney JG ; Larson-Bright M ; Masten AS ; Renier CM ; Ryan, Andrew D.
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Aging Agriculture Behavior Case Reports Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Epidemiology Family Farmers Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Adolescents Age-groups Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Attitude Author Keywords: Child/Adolescent Case-studies Children Environmental-hazards Families Hazards Injuries Injury Injury-prevention Mental-processes Parents' Safety Beliefs Psychological-factors Risk-analysis Safety-climate Safety-measures Safety-practices Surveillance-programs Task-performance Work-operations Work-performance Work Practices

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; 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
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042171
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2009 Sep; 52(9):724-733
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan G. Gerberich PhD, Regional Injury Prevention Research Center, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Mayo Mail Code 807, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
• Email:
  gerbe001@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Work Environment and Workforce: Special Populations ; Work Environment and Workforce: Special Populations
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19980930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:664c04c6a55a008c2f8b9492790e701c27ab80d240a11b28115190954ec07570bfb42b03cc513ec3021dff4b0545c2e6e44a618c90f3eefcf2643b445bd75110
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194476/cdc_194476_DS1.pdf
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