Abstract
In the past decade, over 15,000 children under the age of 5 years were killed in highway crashes (1,988 fatalities in l973).1-3 Practicing physicians could well prevent many such tragic deaths by educating parents on the value of automobile seat restraints.4-5 This study was designed to investigate parental use of automobile child restraint devices in the St. Louis metropolitan area and to determine what influence physicians had on the use of these devices. METHOD Questionnaires were sent to the mothers of 559 newborn infants delivered at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis in September and October 1974 and to the mothers of 757 newborns delivered at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis County from December 15, 1974, through February 14, 1975.
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