OBJECTIVE Current guidelines for optimal restraint of children in motor vehicles recommend the center rear seating location for installing a child-restraint system. However, recent research on child occupants in child-restraint system has brought this into question. The objective of this study was to describe seating position patterns among appropriately restrained child occupants aged 0 to 3 y...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether injuries to sub-optimally restrained child occupants in real-world crashes were likely to be preventable by alternative restraint usage practices and to assess the usefulness of crash reconstruction for exploring injury mechanisms in child occupants. METHODS Real-world crashes in which child occupants sustained significant injuries were reconstructed on a labora...

Since March 2010 in Queensland, legislation has specified the type of restraint and seating row for child passengers under 7 years according to age. The following study explored regional parents‟ child restraint practices and the influence of their health beliefs over these. A brief intercept interview was verbally administered to a convenience sample of parent-drivers (n = 123) in Toowoomba in...

In 2008, the number of children younger than 1 year old or less than 20 pounds restrained in rear-facing child safety seats increased significantly. Rear-facing child safety seats are the appropriate child restraint for children younger than 1 year old or less than 20 pounds. This result is from the National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats (NSUBS), the only probability-based nationwide child...

During the past 40 years, different child restraint systems (CRS) have been developed to improve protection for children of different sizes and ages. Development of more effective CRS, and a higher frequency in use of the restraints, in addition to enhanced vehicle safety, has resulted in an increased level of child safety. This study examines accident data with Volvo cars in Sweden to evaluate...

child safety seat mishandle is still a concern. to prevent serious injuries and death from automotive accidents, correct use of car seats for small children is essential. failure to use a car seat properly can contribute to serious injury or death of a child. recent studies have shown that child safety seats can tolerate the impact of a minor crash without affecting their future performance. fa...

CONTEXT The US Federal Aviation Administration is planning a new regulation requiring children younger than 2 years to ride in approved child-restraint seats on airplanes. OBJECTIVES To estimate the annual number of child air crash deaths that might be prevented by the proposed regulation, the threshold proportion of families switching from air to car travel above which the risks of the polic...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of the WHO Safe Communities model approach to increasing child restraint use in motor vehicles. DESIGN Pre- and post-intervention observations of restraint use in motor vehicles in several sites in the target area, and in a comparison area community. SETTING Community; southeast Dallas, Texas, 2003-2005. INTERVENTIONS A multifaceted approach to increasing u...

This research investigated the origins of dietary restraint and disinhibition in young girls by considering how parents' control in child feeding and their daughters' perceptions of these practices relate to girls' dietary restraint and disinhibition. Participants were 197 5-year-old girls (4.6-6.4 years) and their parents. Parental pressure and restriction were measured using the Child Feeding...

The use of restraints in motor vehicles is less common in minority and low-income populations than in the general population. A preliminary survey of Hispanic preschool-aged children in west Dallas, Tex, conducted in 1997 showed much lower child restraint use (19% of those surveyed) than among preschool children of all races in the rest of the city (62%). Because there are few reports of succes...