Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Research
Assessing Parents' Perception of Children's Risk for Recreational Water Illnesses
Jacquelyn McClain*, Jay M. Bernhardt†
, and Michael J. Beach‡
, and Michael J. Beach‡
Table 2
Differences in perceived risk scales and subscales between stage 1 and stage 7*
| Scale | Stage 1 |
Stage 7 |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | n | Mean (SD) | n | F | |
| Disease vector acknowledgment | 23.08 (2.47) | 25 | 27.44 (4.59) | 109 | 21.049† |
| Knowledge of germ transmission | 21.60 (2.96) | 25 | 24.12 (3.18) | 109 | 13.05† |
| Perceived severity of diarrheal illness | 11.74 (2.56) | 23 | 13.03 (2.51) | 104 | 5.004‡ |
| Perceived severity of other illnesses | 8.70 (2.20) | 24 | 10.52 (1.96) | 104 | 15.90† |
| Efficacy of behavioral modifications | 21.50 (2.15) | 24 | 21.26 (2.23) | 105 | 0.24 |
| Efficacy of swim diapers | 6.17 (2.22) | 24 | 5.22 (2.09) | 106 | 3.95‡ |
| Self-efficacy for gastrointestinal RWI prevention | 14.70 (3.85) | 22 | 15.53 (2.77) | 96 | 1.25 |
| Threat appraisal of RWI prevention | 64.78 (7.12) | 23 | 75.29 (8.60) | 104 | 29.76† |
| Perceived risk for RWI | 107.11 (9.44) | 18 | 117.52 (9.04) | 90 | 19.62† |
*RWI, water recreational disease.
†p<0.001.
‡p<0.05.
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