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Asking the experts: developing and validating parental diaries to assess children's minor injuries

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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:15 authored by Janet BoddyJanet Boddy, Marjorie Smith
The methodological issues involved in parental reporting of events in children's everyday lives are discussed with reference to the development and validation of an incident diary, collecting concurrent data on minor injuries in a community study of children under eight years old. Eighty-two mothers participated in a comparison over nine days of daily telephone interviews and structured incident diaries. Telephone methods resulted in more missing data, and participants in both groups expressed a preference for the diary method. This diary was then validated on a sample of 56 preschool and school-aged children by comparing injury recording by a research health visitor with that of their mothers. Each failed to report some injuries, but there was good agreement overall, and in descriptive data on injuries reported by both. Parental diaries have the potential to provide rich data, of acceptable validity, on minor events in everyday life.

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  • Published

Journal

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

ISSN

1364–5579

Publisher

Routledge

Issue

1

Volume

11

Page range

63-77

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  • Education Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-04-17

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