Childhood injury awareness : are motor vehicles the most recognized vector ?

The objective of this study was to determine the level of childhood injury awareness among neighborhood members and to examine how this awareness depends on ethnicity. The study methodology was a telephone survey of 900 adults in Dallas, Texas: 272 Whites, 300 Blacks, 300 Hispanics, and 28 "Other" persons. Among the injury types was riding in a motor vehicle. It was found that injury awareness differs by both ethnicity and injury mechanism which should be taken into account when developing neighborhood safety/injury prevention programs.