Child restraint system use in the United Arab Emirates |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, University of Sharjah, PO Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates;2. Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kuwait University, PO Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait;1. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;2. Population Research Centre, Faculty of Spatial Science, University of Groningen & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague, The Netherlands;3. Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;4. Department of Health Psychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;1. Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands;2. University of Maryland, 3359 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD 20742, United States;3. Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 801 W. Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States;1. School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;2. Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece;3. Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;4. Welten Institute - Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, Netherlands;5. Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;6. Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;7. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA;8. Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;1. The Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, United States;2. The Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, United States;3. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, United States;4. The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Abstract: | ObjectiveDeaths and injuries among infants due to traffic crashes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are very high when compared to other countries. An efficient way to improve the safety of children in moving vehicles is to use Child Restraint Systems (CRS) to hold the child during any possible collision. The aim of this study is to estimate the rate of CRS use among children under the age of five in UAE, to determine demographic characteristics that affect CRS use, such as parent’s age, and education level, and to assess parents’ perceptions and knowledge of this issue.MethodsA roadside observational study was done in two of the seven emirates that constitute UAE, involving 1000 randomly taken observations. Also, a questionnaire was randomly distributed to a sample of 494 parents of children under the age of five.ResultsResults of the observational study show that 16.7% of parents restrain their children in moving motor vehicles. Questionnaire results show that approximately 9% of respondents reported not or rarely restraining their children in moving motor vehicles. Also, 3.4% of them indicated their disbelief in the importance of CRS in reducing harm in case of a crash. Moreover, questionnaire results indicate that young, less educated and male parents reported lower use rate and have less belief in the importance of CRS use in harm reduction in crashes than other groups of parents.ConclusionsCRS use in UAE is very low and awareness of its importance needs to be improved. Based on the results, practical suggestions are put forward to increase CRS use rate and improve safety conditions for this group of road users. |
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| Keywords: | Child restraint system United Arab Emirates Traffic safety Motor vehicle crashes Parents’ behaviour |
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