SOCIAL PATTERNS OF ROAD ACCIDENTS TO CHILDREN - SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES
SOCIAL PATTERNS OF ROAD ACCIDENTS TO CHILDREN - SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.1.5119.409
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发表时间:
1959-01-01
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通讯作者:
JOHNSTON, AM
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作者:
BACKETT, EM;JOHNSTON, AM
Method A randomly selected group of schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 14 who had had pedestrian road accidents was compared with a matched control group for the following personaland family characteristics:(a) family and maternal health;(b) maternal preoccupation-for example, with work outside the home or with other children;(c) family size and age structure;(d) poverty and prosperity of family;(e) protected and unprotected play;(J) crowding;(g) other accidents;(h) intelligence. In addition, the distributions of accident children and others in Belfast were compared by an independent rating of parental standards and co-operation. Population.-The Royal Ulster Constabulary provided thenames of the last 250 children aged 5-14 years involved in non-fatal road accidents as pedestrians within the Belfast boundary prior to the beginning of the study. This group formed the experimental accident