Unintentional Injuries: attribution, perceived preventability, and social norms.

An interview study was conducted to demonstrate beliefs and attitudes toward causes and prevention of unintentional injury in the home. Experts in injury prevention, unskilled workers, and people in higher executive positions were interviewed on the basis of six authentic case descriptions of the course of an accident. The interviews focused on the partcipants' conceptions and interpretations of (a)causality, (b)preventability, (c) opportunities for prevention by means of information and (d) responsibility.