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Public opinion concerning residential sprinkler systems for 1- and 2-family homes

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Epidemiology, November 2015
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Title
Public opinion concerning residential sprinkler systems for 1- and 2-family homes
Published in
Injury Epidemiology, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s40621-015-0060-5
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Shannon Frattaroli, Keshia M. Pollack, Phillip J. Cook, Michele Salomon, Elise Omaki, Andrea C. Gielen

Abstract

Residential sprinkler systems (RSS) are one intervention to prevent fire injury and death, yet there is no literature documenting why RSS homeowners opt to purchase a sprinkler-equipped home. This manuscript describes homeowners' decisions to purchase homes with residential sprinkler systems (RSS) and their experiences with the technology. It also compares how RSS homeowners and owners of homes without RSS value sprinklers and their levels of support for policies to mandate RSS in new homes. We used a national online web panel to sample owners of 1- and 2-family homes, and descriptive methods to analyze the resulting data. Our final sample included 1,357 homeowners of 1- and 2-family homes without RSS and 976 homeowners with RSS. RSS homeowners were more likely than owners of non-RSS homes to indicate they would buy an RSS home in the future (75 % vs. 30 %), and more often indicated a willingness to pay for sprinklers (70 % vs. 40 %). RSS homeowners also expressed higher levels of support for policies to mandate RSS in all new 1- and 2-family homes (48 % vs. 19 %). The findings offer insight into educational and policy strategies to promote RSS in all new homes, and provide a foundation for future research in this area.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 25%
Student > Master 2 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Unspecified 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 13%
Engineering 2 13%
Social Sciences 2 13%
Unspecified 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 May 2021.
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#3,978,128
of 22,833,393 outputs
Outputs from Injury Epidemiology
#138
of 321 outputs
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#55,723
of 285,428 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Injury Epidemiology
#3
of 8 outputs
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