Child Passenger Safety in the Somali Communities of Columbus, Ohio

Children (particularly low-income minorities and refugees) are at high risk for serious injury or death from motor vehicle crashes. Interpreter-assisted data col-lection included key informant interviews, focus groups and face-to-face surveys with the Somali community of Columbus, Ohio about child p...

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Published in:Journal of community health 2017-04, Vol.42 (2), p.221-227
Main Authors: McKenzie, Lara B., Fowler, Erica, Roberts, Kristin J., Kaercher, Roxanne M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Child
Child Health
Child Restraint Systems - utilization
Child restraints
Child Safety
Community and Environmental Psychology
Community Relations
Data collection
Ethics
Female
Focus Groups
Health Behavior
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Low income groups
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Minority & ethnic groups
Motor vehicles
National Surveys
Ohio
ORIGINAL PAPER
Periodicals
Public health
Safety
Somalia - ethnology
State Surveys
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Traffic accidents & safety
Young Adult
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Summary:Children (particularly low-income minorities and refugees) are at high risk for serious injury or death from motor vehicle crashes. Interpreter-assisted data col-lection included key informant interviews, focus groups and face-to-face surveys with the Somali community of Columbus, Ohio about child passenger safety. Mea-surements included prevalence of child safety seats use, awareness and knowledge of and barriers to proper use in order to inform development, implementation, and ini-tial evaluation of a culturally-appropriate intervention for Somali families. Somali parents regarded child passenger safety as an important topic, but many reported improper restraint behaviors of one or more children and/or did not have an adequate number of child safety seats. Few parents reported having child safety seats installed by a profes-sional technician. Child passenger safety practices in the Somali communities of Columbus are a public health con-cern that should be addressed with culturally-appropriate interventions.
ISSN:0094-5145
1573-3610
DOI:10.1007/s10900-016-0246-y