@article{ref1,
title="Categorizing mothers' and fathers' conceptualizations of children's serious play-related injuries: "You won't grow a finger back"",
journal="Child: care, health and development",
year="2020",
author="Bauer, Michelle E. E. and Brussoni, Mariana and Giles, Audrey R.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0305-1862",
doi="10.1111/cch.12761",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12761"
}