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Parental awareness and perception for correct use of child restraint systems and airbags in Brazil

Souza, Bruno Gonçalves Schröder e ; Evangelista de Melo, Tiago ; Pereira Lisboa, Tales ; Bastos Miranda, Marcos ; Schroder e Souza, Thiago Gonçalves ; de Oliveira, Valdeci Manoel

Traffic injury prevention, 2017-02, Vol.18 (2), p.171-174 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Parental awareness and perception for correct use of child restraint systems and airbags in Brazil
Autor: Souza, Bruno Gonçalves Schröder e ; Evangelista de Melo, Tiago ; Pereira Lisboa, Tales ; Bastos Miranda, Marcos ; Schroder e Souza, Thiago Gonçalves ; de Oliveira, Valdeci Manoel
Assuntos: Accident prevention ; Adult ; Age ; Air Bags ; airbag ; Airbags ; Automobiles ; Brazil ; Cars ; Child ; Child Restraint Systems - utilization ; Child restraints ; child safety ; child seat ; Child, Preschool ; Children ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Devices ; epidemiology ; Female ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Parents ; Parents & parenting ; Parents - psychology ; Passenger safety ; Perceptions ; protective devices ; Seats ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Traffic accidents & safety
É parte de: Traffic injury prevention, 2017-02, Vol.18 (2), p.171-174
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Descrição: Objective: The objective of this study was to obtain information about the current knowledge and habits of parents who transport children in cars in Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using specifically designed self-report questionnaires to parents of children attending a private pediatric office in a town in southwest Brazil. Data were collected regarding children's age, gender, height, and weight and possession of an automobile child restraint system (CRS), its type, frequency and adequacy of use, and reasons for not possessing or not using the devices. Parents were asked whether their cars were equipped with airbags and about the use of the restraints in seats with airbags. Results: We interviewed parents of 293 children transported in cars who met the criteria for use of a CRS. Children were younger than 1 year in 15.3% of the cases, between 1 and 4 years in 38.6%, and older than 4 in 46.1%. Cars were equipped with CRS in 78.5% of the cases, but in only 58% of the cases was the device proper for child's age and adequately installed in the seat. Among owners of the devices, 84.3% reported that they always used it. Reasons for infrequency were forgetting the device at home or in another car (6.4%), the child disliking the device (3.2%), or the false impression that the child was grown enough not to use it (3.2%)l 87.1% did not justify why they did not always use the CRS. Considering type of CRS, correct installation of the seat, and frequency of use, only 44.4% of children under 1 year, 69.9% of those 1 to 4 years, and 52.6% over age 4 were protected. Only 28.6% of the parents knew that children should never be positioned in a seat with active airbags. Conclusion: Considering appropriateness for age, correctness of installation (in the back seat in the correct orientation), and frequency of use, only 50.85% (149/293) of the children were reported as always protected with a CRS. Children between 1 and 4 years were more likely to always use a CRS in this Brazilian survey. We were also able to identify an important gap in the knowledge about airbags among parents. Further efforts are needed to correct those distortions.
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Parental awareness and perception for correct use of child restraint systems and airbags in Brazil

Souza, Bruno Gonçalves Schröder e ; Evangelista de Melo, Tiago ; Pereira Lisboa, Tales ; Bastos Miranda, Marcos ; Schroder e Souza, Thiago Gonçalves ; de Oliveira, Valdeci Manoel

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