{"id":5746,"date":"2016-12-07T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:34:40","slug":"poll-cautions-parents-to-balance-trampoline-safety-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/poll-cautions-parents-to-balance-trampoline-safety-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll cautions parents to balance trampoline safety this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas just weeks away and Santa busy wrapping and packing, Australian parents are being advised about the potential risks of injury to children on trampolines.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhealthpoll.org.au\">Australian Child Health Poll<\/a>, released today, reveals Australian parents are not supervising children on trampolines, the vast majority are allowing more than one child at a time to jump on a trampoline, and less than one in two parents know the specific first aid for treating some trampoline injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the poll, paediatrician Dr Anthea Rhodes, said while it was impossible to prevent all childhood injuries, the poll was a timely reminder for parents on how to keep their kids safe this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth Australian Child Health Poll also found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More Australian kids today are jumping on a trampoline than riding a bicycle or scooter or skateboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Of those who use a trampoline, one in six has sustained an injury such as broken or fractured bones, concussion, cuts or bruises, or sprains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two thirds of children who use a trampoline are not always supervised by an adult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty per cent of children under two are not always supervised by an adult when on a trampoline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite guidelines* recommending no more than one child on a trampoline at a time, more than 80 per cent of parents said they allow multiple kids to jump on a trampoline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of parents reported knowing the specific first aid for a bleeding wound and over half for a broken bone, however only one in two parents know the specific first aid for a head injury, dislodged tooth or an unconscious child.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.childhealthpoll.org.au\/\">childhealthpoll.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas just weeks away, the latest Australian Child Health Poll advises parents about the potential risks of injury to children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/5750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}