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Understanding low -income mothers' efforts to safeguard young children in the home: An exploratory study

机译：了解低收入母亲在家庭中保护幼儿的努力：一项探索性研究

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Unintentional injuries in the home environment pose a significant threat to the health of young children. Children living in lower-income environments are also known to be at greater risk for injuries. Little is known, however, about how mothers' protect their children from injuries and how the contexts in which they live shape these efforts.;In this study, qualitative methods were employed to explore mothers' efforts to keep their children safe in the home. Data collection took place in the homes of participants using interviews and observations. Seventeen mothers and their children (1-5 years old) who lived in a medium-sized community participated in the study. Three different approaches were used to analyze the data including ethnography, discourse analysis and gender based analysis.;The study findings revealed that mothers' efforts to safeguard children were extensive, time consuming and involved actions directed at children as well as at the social and physical environments. Mothers often took their child safety efforts for granted and a variety of contextual factors were found to shape these efforts. Furthermore, women's accounts of their children's injuries also revealed how they aligned themselves with dominant cultural expectations about mothering and child safety but also how they challenged these expectations. On the whole, mothers expressed a strong commitment to keeping their children safe and described ways that their safety efforts were both supported and constrained. These constraints included a lack of financial resources, limited options for assistance with childcare, a restriction of social ties, presence of outdoor hazards, and challenges related to modifying the physical household environment. The analysis also showed how women's safety activities were closely linked to their gendered practices as mothers.;These study findings suggest that future research needs to address how children's injuries can be prevented through better supports for mothers' home safety efforts and increased understandings of mothers' perspectives about child safety. When planning injury prevention interventions, practitioners need to consider how the meanings that mothers hold about child safety, and the constraints and realities they face living in challenging social conditions may affect their uptake and use of safety messages.
机译：家庭环境中的意外伤害严重影响了幼儿的健康。众所周知，生活在低收入环境中的儿童受伤的风险更大。然而，关于母亲如何保护自己的孩子免受伤害以及他们如何生活的环境如何影响这些努力，人们知之甚少；在这项研究中，采用定性方法来探索母亲为保护孩子在家里的安全所做的努力。数据收集是通过访谈和观察在参与者的家中进行的。居住在中型社区中的17名母亲和他们的孩子（1-5岁）参加了这项研究。使用三种不同的方法来分析数据，包括人种志，话语分析和基于性别的分析。研究结果表明，母亲为保护儿童所做的努力是广泛的，费时的，涉及针对儿童以及社会和身体的行动环境。母亲经常将他们对儿童安全的努力视为理所当然，发现各种背景因素决定了这些努力。此外，妇女对子女受伤的描述还表明，她们如何与对孕产和儿童安全的主流文化期望保持一致，以及如何挑战这些期望。总体而言，母亲们表达了维护孩子安全的坚定承诺，并描述了支持和限制其安全努力的方式。这些制约因素包括：缺乏财政资源，用于托儿的援助选择有限，社会关系受到限制，存在户外危险以及与改变家庭实际环境有关的挑战。分析还显示了妇女的安全活动如何与她们作为母亲的性别习俗密切相关;这些研究结果表明，未来的研究需要解决如何通过更好地支持母亲的家庭安全工作和加深对母亲的认识来预防儿童受伤的问题。关于儿童安全的观点。在计划预防伤害的干预措施时，从业人员需要考虑母亲对儿童安全的理解，以及在充满挑战的社会环境中生活所面临的制约和现实，会如何影响他们对安全信息的吸收和使用。

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    Olsen, Lise Lindquist.;

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    The University of British Columbia (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 The University of British Columbia (Canada).;
  • 学科 Public health.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2007
  • 页码 230 p.
  • 总页数 230
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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