Parental perspectives of physicians and nurses on child trampoline use: "I feel like I'm just kind of caving to social pressure".

Background: A wealth of evidence demonstrates the potentially injurious consequences for children using trampolines. Despite this evidence, many parents continue to support their children's use of trampolines and instal trampolines around their homes.

Approach: In this study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with parents across Canada who are emergency practitioners. We examined physicians' and nurses' (n=56) perspectives on their children's trampoline use. Tenets of risk society theory were used to inform our approach.

Results: Three themes were identified through a thematic analysis: (1) heightened injury awareness; (2) social stigma and (3) balancing child development and safety.

Conclusion: Our findings enrich conversations on child injury prevention by demonstrating how parental attitudes towards children's use of common household features such as trampolines can be shaped by witnessing children's injuries, accessing health information and education and being exposed to public pressures to achieve parental safety ideals.