Citation

Bauer MEE, Brussoni M, Giles AR. Child Care Health Dev. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, 125 University Private, Ottawa, ON.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cch.12761

PMID

32037597

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is inconsistency across child development and care literature in operationalizing serious play-related injury, and also a lack of understanding of how mothers and fathers conceptualize serious play-related injury. The current study explores parents' perspectives of their 2- to 7-year-old children's serious play-related injuries in urban and rural areas of British Columbia and Québec, Canada, and provides an urban/rural and gender analysis of the results.

METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 41 mothers and 63 fathers from 57 families, a total of 104 participants, in urban and rural locations in British Columbia and Québec, Canada. We used a social constructionist approach to the research and reflexive thematic analysis to construct themes from participant responses and to inform the consequent categorizations of serious play-related injury.

RESULTS: The results indicate four categories of parents' conceptualizations of serious play-related injury: (1) injury requiring medical intervention; (2) injury resulting in head trauma; (3) injury resulting in debilitation; and (4) broken bones.

CONCLUSIONS: Child development and care advocates can use these categories to strengthen their communications with parents and to improve understanding of parents' conceptualizations of children's serious play-related injury.

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Language: en

Keywords

child development; child injury; family dynamics; qualitative analysis