Mothers’ perspectives on the delivery of childhood injury messages: a qualitative study from the growing up in Wales, environments for healthy living study (EHL)

BMC Public Health

Ronan Lyons¹  Frances Rapport¹  Kelly Morgan¹  Sinead Brophy¹  Rebecca A Hill¹  Ashrafunnesa Khanom¹ 

[1] College of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales

关键词: Health professional;    Migration;    Neighbourhood deprivation;    Message delivery;    Prevention;    Childhood injury;   

Others  :  1161842
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-806

 received in 2013-05-03, accepted in 2013-08-29,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Childhood injury is the second leading cause of death for infants aged 1–5 years in the United Kingdom (UK) and most unintentional injuries occur in the home. We explored mothers’ knowledge and awareness of child injury prevention and sought to discover mothers’ views about the best method of designing interventions to deliver appropriate child safety messages to prevent injury in the home.

Methods

Qualitative study based on 21 semi-structured interviews with prospective mothers and mothers of young children. Mothers were selected according to neighbourhood deprivation status.

Results

There was no difference in awareness of safety devices according to mothers’ deprivation status. Social networks were important in raising awareness and adherence to child safety advice. Mothers who were recent migrants had not always encountered safety messages or safety equipment commonly used in the UK. Mothers’ recommended that safety information should be basic and concise, and include both written and pictorial information and case studies focus on proactive preventive messages. Messages should be delivered both by mass media and suitably trained individuals and be timed to coincide with pregnancy and repeated at age appropriate stages of child development.

Conclusions

The findings suggest that timely childhood injury-related risk messages should be delivered during pregnancy and in line with developmental milestones of the child, through a range of sources including social networks, mass media, face-to-face advice from health professionals and other suitably trained mothers. In addition information on the safe use of home appliances around children and use of child safety equipment should be targeted specifically at those who have recently migrated to the United Kingdom.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Khanom et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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