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Assessing Parents' Perception of Children's Risk for Recreational Water Illnesses
| العنوان: | Assessing Parents' Perception of Children's Risk for Recreational Water Illnesses |
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| المؤلفون: | Jacquelyn McClain, Jay M. Bernhardt, Michael J. Beach |
| المصدر: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 11, Iss 5, Pp 670-676 (2005) |
| بيانات النشر: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Risk Assessment, water, Recreation, Swimming, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216 |
| الوصف: | Understanding people's risk perceptions and motivations to adopt preventive behavior is important in preventing the spread of recreational water illnesses (RWI) and other emerging infectious diseases. We developed a comprehensive scale measuring parents' perceived risk of their children contracting RWI. Parents (N = 263) completed a self-administered questionnaire with scale items based on 4 constructs of the Protection Motivation Theory: perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, response efficacy, and self-efficacy. Exploratory factor analysis identified 7 underlying factors, indicating 7 subscales of perceived risk for RWI. Cronbach α ranged from 0.60 to 0.81. The Precaution Adoption Process Model supported scale construct validity. This study provides the first perceived risk scale for exploring psychosocial factors that may predict or mediate the adoption of behaviors that prevent the spread of infectious diseases contracted by children while swimming. Findings from this study also provide implications for encouraging preventive behavior against other emerging infectious diseases. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1080-6040 1080-6059 |
| Relation: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/5/04-0779_article; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6040; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6059 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid1105.040779 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/751e77933d7c442fba1ea9c727ef4b25 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.751e77933d7c442fba1ea9c727ef4b25 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 10806040 10806059 |
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| DOI: | 10.3201/eid1105.040779 |