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Avoiding unintentional injuries from household chemicals: Comparing the appeal to children from the perspectives of children, caregivers, and experts

Bosshart, Noah; Bearth, Angela; Stutz, Sandro E; Wermelinger, Stephanie; Daum, Moritz M; Siegrist, Michael (2025). Avoiding unintentional injuries from household chemicals: Comparing the appeal to children from the perspectives of children, caregivers, and experts. Applied Ergonomics, 122:104401.

Abstract

This study investigated whether caregivers and regulatory experts can predict the appeal of household chemicals for children and explored determinants of differences between adults' and children's child-appeal rating. We invited N = 95 4-year-old children and their caregivers to a laboratory study. Both independently ranked 16 household chemicals from the least to the most child-appealing product. In addition to the laboratory study, we sent an online adaptation of this ranking task to N = 46 experts involved in the monitoring and authorizing of household chemicals. Our findings show that the aggregated child-appeal rating of household chemicals was highly similar among caregivers, experts, and children. When comparing child-appeal ratings of household chemicals with and without child-appealing images, caregivers and experts did well in predicting which products might appeal to children. Finally, our findings show that the similarity between individual caregivers' and their own children's child-appeal ratings of household chemicals varied substantially. To conclude, although adults can assess the general child-appeal of household chemicals, they need to consider that the actual appeal of a household chemical can vary considerably among individual children. Instead of regulating specific product attributes, policymakers should prioritize educating caregivers about pitfalls and misconceptions that hinder effective injury prevention.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
06 Faculty of Arts > Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:400 Language
150 Psychology
370 Education
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Human Factors and Ergonomics
Health Sciences > Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Physical Sciences > Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Physical Sciences > Engineering (miscellaneous)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Unintentional injury, Categorization, Children, Caregiver, Household chemicals
Language:English
Date:January 2025
Deposited On:06 Jan 2025 13:14
Last Modified:07 Jan 2025 21:00
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0003-6870
OA Status:Hybrid
Free access at:Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104401
PubMed ID:39396407
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  • Funder: Federal Office of Public Health
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