ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention1998
Rates of, and the factors affecting, cycle helmet use among secondary schoolchildren in East Sussex and Kent.
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- Cycle helmet ownership and use; a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary school children in deprived areas.Archives of disease in childhood · 2004Trial
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- Demographic, socioeconomic, and attitudinal associations with children's cycle-helmet use in the absence of legislation.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2007Article
- Inequalities in cycle helmet use: cross sectional survey in schools in deprived areas of Nottingham.Archives of disease in childhood · 2003Article
- Safety attitudes and beliefs of junior Australian football players.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2002Article
- Cross country variation of fractures in the childhood population. Is the origin biological or "accidental"?Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2001Article
- Bicycle helmet-wearing variation and associated factors in Ontario teenagers and adults.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the level of cycle helmet wearing among young people in two counties in the South East of England in 1994, and to identify the factors associated with helmet wearing.
designCross sectional survey in a convenience sample.
settingSecondary schools in East Sussex and Kent. SUBJECTS: Students in year 7 (aged 10-12 years) and year 11 (aged 14-16 years). Main outcome measures--Self reported "always wears a helmet".
resultsAmong those who ride a bicycle, 32% of boys and 29% of girls aged 10-12 years, and 14% of boys and 10% of girls aged 14-16, reported that they always wear helmets. The variables that were most consistently associated with helmet wearing (that is significantly associated with helmet wearing in at least five of the six age, sex, and county subgroups) were: "parental encouragement to wear a helmet" "closest friend wears a helmet", "belief that laws that make children wear helmets are good", and "sometimes rides off-road".
conclusionsThe self reported rates of always wearing a cycle helmet in East Sussex and Kent are consistent with overseas findings for populations who had not been exposed to intensive helmet promotion. The evidence suggests that parental encouragement has a favourable effect on rates of cycle helmet use among secondary schoolchildren, which is separate from and additional to peer influences. When designing a helmet promotion programme, therefore, it will have added impact if both parents and children are addressed.
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