Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale.
OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk. METHODS: The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and perception of risk. RESULTS: The WARE Scale has high inte...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Health Behavior Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 639 - 650 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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PNG Publications
Nov/Dec2009
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| Sumario: | OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk. METHODS: The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and perception of risk. RESULTS: The WARE Scale has high internal consistency reliability (alpha = .89). Parents underestimated scenarios with high injury/death rates and overestimated scenarios with low injury/death rates. CONCLUSIONS: Risk estimation measures such as the WARE Scale have great potential as research tools and may be modified to suit researchers' needs. |
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