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Overcoming Barriers To Use Of Child Car Seats In An Urban Aboriginal Community—Formative Evaluation Of A Program For Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Lisa Keay, Kate Hunter, Martyn Ralph, Bobby Porykali, Marilyn Lyford, Kathleen F. Clapham, Winston Lo, Rebecca Ivers
Overcoming Barriers To Use Of Child Car Seats In An Urban Aboriginal Community—Formative Evaluation Of A Program For Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Lisa Keay, Kate Hunter, Martyn Ralph, Bobby Porykali, Marilyn Lyford, Kathleen F. Clapham, Winston Lo, Rebecca Ivers
Australian Health Services Research Institute
Background
Little is known about the barriers to use of child car seats in Australian Aboriginal communities, or the acceptability of programs to increase appropriate car seat use. This formative evaluation sought to consult and partner with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) to develop and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a program intended to improve optimal use of child car seats.
Methods
Focus groups were conducted with parents and carers of Aboriginal children to identify the barriers and facilitating factors for child car seat use, and staff of two ACCHS were interviewed to inform program development. Following the …
Relation Of Child, Caregiver, And Environmental Characteristics To Childhood Injury In An Urban Aboriginal Cohort In New South Wales, Australia, Katherine Thurber, Leonie Burgess, Kathleen Falster, Emily Banks, Holger Moller, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Chris T. Cowell, Vivian Isaac, Deanna Kalucy, Peter Fernando, Cheryl Woodall, Kathleen F. Clapham
Relation Of Child, Caregiver, And Environmental Characteristics To Childhood Injury In An Urban Aboriginal Cohort In New South Wales, Australia, Katherine Thurber, Leonie Burgess, Kathleen Falster, Emily Banks, Holger Moller, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Chris T. Cowell, Vivian Isaac, Deanna Kalucy, Peter Fernando, Cheryl Woodall, Kathleen F. Clapham
Australian Health Services Research Institute
Objective: Despite being disproportionately affected by injury, little is known about factors associated with injury in Aboriginal children. We investigated factors associated with injury among urban Aboriginal children attending four Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in New South Wales, Australia. Methods: We examined characteristics of caregiver-reported child injury, and calculated prevalence ratios of 'ever-injury' by child, family, and environmental factors. Results: Among children in the cohort, 29% (n=373/1,303) had ever broken a bone, been knocked out, required stitches or been hospitalised for a burn or poisoning; 40-78% of first injuries occurred at home and 60-91% were treated in hospital. Reported …