Child Safety Seat‒Use Behavior Among Parents of Newborns: A Trans-Theoretical Model‒Guided Intervention in Shantou, China, 2021

Yixiang Peng; Feng Wu; Jingzhen Yang; Liping Li

doi:10.2105/AJPH.2023.307415

Child Safety Seat‒Use Behavior Among Parents of Newborns: A Trans-Theoretical Model‒Guided Intervention in Shantou, China, 2021

Am J Public Health. 2023 Dec;113(12):1271-1275. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307415. Epub 2023 Oct 5.

Authors

Yixiang Peng¹, Feng Wu¹, Jingzhen Yang¹, Liping Li¹

Affiliation

¹ Yixiang Peng, Feng Wu, and Liping Li are with the School of Public Health, Shantou University, and Injury Prevention Research Center, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China. Y. Peng is also with the Department of Prevention and Healthcare and Healthcare-Associated Infection Management, The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China. Jingzhen Yang is with the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.

Abstract

We evaluated the effect of a trans-theoretical model-based intervention on child safety seat (CSS)‒use behaviors among parents of newborns in Shantou, China. Parents' knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy scores on CSS use were significantly higher at one, three, and six months after the intervention compared with scores at baseline. Parents' stage of CSS use also advanced as the intervention progressed. The trans-theoretical model‒based intervention and evidence generated from this study may provide guidance for future individualized interventions to improve CSS use. (Am J Public Health. 2023;113(12):1271-1275. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307415).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Child Restraint Systems*
China
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Parents