Promoting Correct Car Seat Use in Parents of Young Children: Challenges, Recommendations, and Implications for Health Communication

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Promot Pract
• Personal Author:
  Weaver, Nancy L. ; Brixey, Suzanne N. ; Williams, Janice ; Nansel, Tonja R.
• Description:
  Injuries involving motor vehicles continue to be the biggest threat to the safety of children. Although child safety seats (CSS) have been established as a central countermeasure in decreasing injury risk, the majority of parents do not use the correct car seat correctly. There are many challenges in promoting correct car seat use, which itself is a complex behavior. To advance this critical protective behavior, the public health community would benefit from clarifying CSS messaging, communicating clearly, and addressing the conflicting recommendations of product use. In this article, we present current challenges in promoting CSS use and draw on health communication and other fields to offer recommendations for future work in this area.
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Child, Preschool Child Restraint Systems Cooperative Behavior Health Communication Health Promotion Humans Infant Wounds And Injuries
• Source:
  Health Promot Pract. 2012; 14(2):301-307.
• Pubmed ID:
  22991278
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3629542
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R21 CE001830/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; Z01 HD002402-09/Intramural NIH HHS/United States ; R21 CE001830-01/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ebb1001fd53fdde6c95380bb8ce3084b53fb425e14253c8a918d6e6128431b7a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33543/cdc_33543_DS1.pdf
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