Influence of maternal parenting on injury proneness among school children

Objective To explore the influence of maternal parenting on unintentional injury proneness among schoolchildren,and to provide the theoretical basis for the personalized intervention of high-risk groups.Methods A total of 2 854 students of grade 4 and 5 from 10 primary schools in 6 urban areas and 4 rural areas in Taiyuan city were selected by using stratified random cluster sampling method,and they were surveyed with questionnaire.Results Totally 109 children with injury proneness were screened out and the incidence rate was 3.8%.The falling injury was ranked highest among all types of children unintentional injury proneness.There are gender differences in excessive interference / overprotection,refusing to deny,severe punishment and spoiling the subjects(x2 =7.680,7.171,7.277,4.492,P<0.01).The Logistic stepwise regression analysis showed that:parenting style of excessive interference/overprotection and severe punishment were risk factors for children who had proneness of unintentional injury (P<0.05).Conclusion Maternal parenting for children has significant influence on the proneness of unintentional injury,and bad parenting will increase the incidence of injury proneness.In the course of injury intervention,we should pay attention to the influencing factors of mothers.