OBJECTIVE To determine the risk for injury associated with environmental hazards in public playgrounds. SETTING One hundred and seventeen playgrounds operated by municipalities or school boards in and around Kingston, Ontario, Canada. METHODS A regional surveillance database was used to identify children presenting to emergency departments who were injured on public playgrounds; each case w...

We used a discrete choice conjoint experiment to model the bullying prevention recommendations of 845 students from grades 5 to 8 (aged 9-14). Students made choices between experimentally varied combinations of 14 four-level prevention program attributes. Latent class analysis yielded three segments. The high impact segment (27.1%) recommended uniforms, mandatory recess activities, four playgro...

Investigated preschoolers' playmate preferences for line drawings of a physically normal child, one with a facial scar, one wearing a leg brace, and one sitting in a wheelchair for several contexts: classroom, eating, reading, television, and playground. Difference in preferences for age, gender, ethnic group, and context were investigated. No gender differences were found. African American chi...

Centre Trust, 13 Suffolk Street, London, S.W.I, 7 s. 6d.) If I were a boy in an adventure playground, I'd have a whale of a time. I cou' construct all sorts of contraptions out of corrugated iron, planks and old furnituf'^ Boys adore making "look-outs", as well as freedom and dirt, and it obviously do1 them the world of good. They learn to construct rather than to destroy, and 1 co-operate in s...

This article presents a study on the perception of fear related to the use of three different types of urban furniture, qualitatively evaluated based on interviews while people were using them in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil: the bus shelter, the playground, and the gymnastic equipment. The fear related to the lack of safety of the urban space was associated with the use of the three types ...

Falls within children’s playgrounds result in long bone and serious injuries. To lower the likelihood severity of injury, impact attenuating surfaces (IAS) are installed area (fall zone). There three primary IAS materials used, namely: granulated rubber products, wood fibre sand. is a deficiency with existing test methods that they do not take account sand degradation over time. When children u...

environmental impacts, pollutants, occupational stresses, population density, and health and safety problems are side effects of rapid urbanization. these problems threaten human being, especially children as the prominent vulnerable group in every human settlement. in this article playground as one of the main urban spaces has been emphasized. safety ignorance can affect on community in both o...

Self, peer and teacher reports of social relationships were examined for 60 high-functioning children with ASD. Compared to a matched sample of typical children in the same classroom, children with ASD were more often on the periphery of their social networks, reported poorer quality friendships and had fewer reciprocal friendships. On the playground, children with ASD were mostly unengaged but...