Beach safety as a family affair: exploring the role of parents on young adolescents' knowledge, bathing risk perceptions, and behaviours.

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Τίτλος: Beach safety as a family affair: exploring the role of parents on young adolescents' knowledge, bathing risk perceptions, and behaviours.
Συγγραφείς: Dehez J; ETTIS, INRAE Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux, 50 avenue de Verdun Gazinet, Cestas F-33612, France.; UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia., Brander RW; UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kensington, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia., Peden AE; UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.; School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia., Lyser S; ETTIS, INRAE Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux, 50 avenue de Verdun Gazinet, Cestas F-33612, France., Castelle B; UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.; CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, EPOC, UMR 5805, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Pessac F-33600, France.
Πηγή: Health promotion international [Health Promot Int] 2026 Sep 01; Vol. 41 (5).
Τύπος έκδοσης: Journal Article
Γλώσσα: English
Στοιχεία περιοδικού: Publisher: Oxford University Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9008939 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1460-2245 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09574824 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Promot Int Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s): Original Publication: Eynsham, Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, c1990-
Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): Parents*/psychology , Bathing Beaches* , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice* , Risk-Taking* , Safety* , Adolescent Behavior*, Humans ; Male ; Adolescent ; Female ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Child ; France ; Surveys and Questionnaires
Περίληψη: Beaches are popular destinations among young adolescents despite the safety risks they may pose. This study aimed to explore how young adolescents are influenced by parents at the beach and how parental presence impacts both their risk perception and their self-reported risk-taking behaviour. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among pupils aged 11-15 years (n = 416) in a public high school in south-western France and assessed their sociodemographic characteristics, water-based recreational use, beach safety knowledge, risk perceptions, and risky behaviours. Pupils were also asked about their likelihood of entering the water outside of lifeguard-supervised areas, as well as their perception of risk, both with and without parental supervision. To analyse pupils' responses, we estimate two cumulative link mixed models with random intercepts for individuals. Two-thirds of pupils reported bathing outside supervised areas within the last 12 months. Just over half of the pupils were able to correctly define rip currents or supervised bathing areas. Our findings highlight the crucial but ambivalent influence of parents' behaviours as parental presence decreased the odds of declaring higher perceived risks and increased the odds of declaring higher willingness to enter the water. Older pupils declared lower perceived risks compared to younger ones, and males were more likely to report entering the water outside of supervised areas than females. Parents constitute the primary information source on water safety for young adolescents. Therefore, beach safety prevention messages should attempt to reach the entire family unit.
(© The Author(s) 2026. Published by Oxford University Press.)
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Grant Information: Region Nouvelle Aquitaine Council; ANR-22-EXIR-0004 Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Contributed Indexing: Keywords: adolescence; beach safety; drowning; parental monitoring; risky behaviour
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