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Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale
Kelli England Will1, Edward J Lorek, Cynthia Shier Sabo
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Community Health and Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA. willke@evms.edu
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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