Presentation
Caregiver Adherence to Warnings Regarding Safe Shopping Cart Use
SessionCI1: Children's Issues
DescriptionInteractions between children and shopping carts lead to injuries. In one year alone, children 5 years old and younger accounted for approximately 19,000 injuries that led to treatment in emergency departments due to interactions with shopping carts. Falls from shopping carts are the primary accident mode for children under 5 years old interacting with shopping carts, the most common cause being the restraint system not being used. However, the extant work on shopping cart users’ safety-relevant behavior is insufficient to understand their actual rates of compliance with warnings on shopping carts. The purpose of the present study was to obtain behavioral data using naturalistic observation to gain a better understanding of rates of caregiver adherence to ASTM F2372 warnings regarding safe shopping cart use. Children were not buckled into the restraint system in 92% of observations. Other components of the ASTM warning had higher rates of compliance.
Contributor
Senior Consultant
Event Type
Lecture
TimeWednesday, September 11th9:45am - 10:05am MST
LocationFLW Salon A
Children's Issues