117: Parental Knowledge of Trampoline Safety in Children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Trampoline injuries remain an important pediatric injury necessitating either an emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization. Parents are in the best position to advocate for the safety of their children during recreational use of trampolines. However, there is no evidence examining parental awareness and application of trampoline-related safety recommendations. In parents of children who presented to the ED with extremity injuries, we determined the proportion of parents who were aware of the five key recommendations for safer recreational trampoline use in children. We also examined parental willingness to allow their children to use a recreational trampoline once informed that national pediatric and orthopedic societies have recommended a ban on home use of trampolines. This was a prospective cross-sectional survey of parents presenting to a tertiary care pediatric emergency department with children 2–17 years of age with an extremity injury. The 24 question survey tool was pre and pilot tested on the target audience for question content and clarity. Assuming a sample proportion of parents who are aware of all five key recommendations to be 0.10, error of +1.5%, α=0.05, a β=0.2 resulted in a sample size of 1400. Of the 1423 enrolled parents, 542 (38.1%) had regular access to a trampoline and 125 (8.8%) of their respective children had a history trampoline injury. Importantly, only 116 (8.2%; 95% CI 6.8 to 9.6) of parents were aware of five key safety recommendations for home trampoline use. Parental knowledge of trampoline safety recommendations was less likely in those whose children had regular recreational trampoline use versus those without (OR =0.6 95% CI 0.4, 1.0), while those parents with children who had a prior trampoline related injury versus those without such injury were more likely to be aware of trampoline safety (OR = 2.3 95% 1.1, 5.1). 96.5% of parents reported that their primary care physician had never discussed trampoline safety with them. Prior to informing parents of the ban recommended by pediatric and orthopedic societies, the proportion of parents willing to own a home trampoline was 30.5%, while after this disclosure willingness decreased to 20.5% (P<0.0001). Trampoline safety knowledge of the five key recommendations among parents is low, but increases with exposure to a trampoline related injury. Parents were less willing to own a home trampoline once made aware of national recommendations. In this population, trampoline safety knowledge was not being discussed preventively in well child visits.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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