Bauer MEE, Brussoni M, Giles AR. Categorizing mothers' and fathers' conceptualizations of children's serious play-related injuries: "You won't grow a finger back".
Child Care Health Dev 2020;
46:530-536. [PMID:
32037597 DOI:
10.1111/cch.12761]
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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 semistructured 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: (a) injury requiring medical intervention, (b) injury resulting in head trauma, (c) injury resulting in debilitation, and (d) 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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