Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the sample

	Fall	Scald	Poisoning	Control^a	Total
Child age
Under 1	2	0	4	0	6
1	5	4	7	4	20
2	4	7	4	7	22
3	4	4	1	3	12
4	1	1	0	2	4
Gender
Male	9	10	8	10	37
Female	7	6	8	6	27
Deprivation
> = median	6	8	7	8	29
< median	10	8	9	8	35
Accommodation
Rented	7	11	4	2
Own home	8	6	12	14
Other	1	0	0	0
Number of children <16
1	8	8	7	7	30
2	4	5	4	5	18
3	2	1	3	3	9
4	1	2	2	0	5
5	0	1	0	1	2
6	1	0	0	0	1

^aCases included children under-5 attending A&E services or admitted to hospital with a fall, suspected poisoning or poisoning or scald injury that happened at home. Controls included children under-5 from the same or a neighbouring GP practice as the case who had not attended an ED or been admitted to hospital on the day the case child attended ED or was admitted to hospital

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