Factors Influencing Exposure of Children to Major Hazards on Family Farms

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• Personal Author:
  Jenkins LS ; Lee BC ; Westaby J
• Description:
  On family farms, parents are usually knowledgeable of high-risk activities, yet they allow their children to be active participants in (or bystanders to) hazardous work for reasons not well-documented. A two-phase descriptive study, based on the theory of planned behavior and using mail survey research methods, was carried out to understand factors that influence parents' decisions to expose children to major hazards on family farms. A representative sample of 1,255 Wisconsin dairy farm fathers provided data about factors that influence their decisions to expose children younger than 14 years to risks of injury. Multivariate analyses revealed that attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control accounted for up to three-fourths of the variance in fathers' behavioral intentions. Fathers' attitudes were stronger predictors of behavioral intentions than subjective norms (i.e., perceived social pressure) or perceived control. Grandparents and mothers exerted a limited influence. Other groups, such as health care providers, 4-H, Future Farmers of America, and insurers, exerted only a modest influence on fathers' feelings of social pressure. Few demographic characteristics of the family or farm were predictive of fathers' intentions to expose children to hazards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Age Factors Aging Agriculture Demography Family Farmers Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Children Demographic-characteristics Families Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Risk-analysis Risk-factors Tractors Traumatic-injuries

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• ISSN:
  0890-765X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  206-215
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026771
• Citation:
  J Rural Health 1997 Jun; 13(3):206-215
• Contact Point Address:
  Barbara C. Lee, RN, PhD, National Farm Medicine Center, 1000 North Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Medical Research & Education Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Rural Health
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:32c0493c49afbd1c1f9622f2416060da212dab90ee68003c5d8dbeae6bff509e2b877fed15ebe33cd6dae835e1c23bdc6f097953d82dba634a9d129e2ac33b2a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197378/cdc_197378_DS1.pdf
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