Caregiver factors and pool fencing: an exploratory analysis.

Caregiver factors and pool fencing: an exploratory analysis.

OBJECTIVES To explore the relationship between caregiver characteristics and the adequacy of domestic swimming pool fencing. SETTING A typical metropolitan area of a large Australian capital city, Brisbane. METHODS From a reanalysis of the dataset of the 1989 Brisbane Home Safety Survey of 1050 householders, associations between 10 caregiver factors, pool ownership, and quality of pool fenc...

Pool fencing for preventing drowning in children.

BACKGROUND In most industrialized countries, drowning ranks second or third behind motor vehicles and fires as a cause of unintentional injury deaths to children under the age of 15. Death rates from drowning are highest in children less than five years old. Pool fencing is a passive environmental intervention designed to reduce unintended access to swimming pools and thus prevent drowning in t...

An Exploratory Analysis of Personality Factors Contributed to Suicide Attempts

BACKGROUND People who attempt suicide have certain individual predispositions, part of which is contributed by personality traits. AIMS The present study was conducted to identify the psycho-sociodemographic and personality related factors contributing to suicide attempts. MATERIALS AND METHODS 104 suicide attempters admitted in various departments and referred to the department of psychiat...

Salivary gland cancer: an exploratory analysis of dietary factors.

This study was an exploratory analysis of dietary and other risk factors for primary salivary gland cancer in a population-based case-control study in Ontario, Canada. Cases were men and women diagnosed between 1995 and 1996 with a first primary cancer of the salivary gland, identified through the Ontario Cancer Registry. Controls were an age-matched random sample of the population of Ontario, ...

Success Factors of Application Integration: An Exploratory Analysis